January 16th, 2008
AAPL: A Sure Sign Apple is on the Right Track
If the share price weren’t enough for you, this story should sum things up:
Techworld.com – Mac users get first taste of ’scareware’
An anti-virus vendor has found the first example of “scareware” for Mac users. Windows users are well used to this spam, where bogus security software tries to spook consumers into coughing up to “clean” their systems, now Mac users are being offered the same dubious benefits.MacSweeper, which sells for US$39.99 through a website of the same name, is a rogue application that will “always find something to fix/clean, but the only way to do so is to buy the program,” claimed F Secure’s Patrik Runald on the company’s blog.
When the mac is big enough to attract virus writers, Apple is doing something right.
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