BBC: Teach our kids about safe Mac computing

I read the article, and I agree with Thompson's view.
The existence of this trojan indicates the interest of the black hats toward the Mac platform. We have yet to see whether they will succeed in getting a worm past the Mac's security, but there is no doubt that they will be trying.
The trojan appeared on porn sites, but also got hacked into social networking sites. Thompson's son is into YouTube and flixter. So he may also by implication be looking for video on another site which uses QT, and potentially hosts the trojan.
Thompson may have posted some dubious stuff in the past, but here he takes a jab at micro$oft and urges UK schools to get beyond teaching Word and Powerpoint, and savvy up the kids to the responsibilities of using the internet. In the past, that advice would have benefitted Windows users more, but now the benefit might be cross-platform.
So what's wrong with that?

I love that you chose a picture of Tommy Trojan - he's smack dab in the middle of USC's Univeristy Park Campus. Fight on!

Ridiculous. One piece of malware is released for Mac and everyone goes crazy. Not to mention the fact that it wouldn't even be considered malware if something similar existed for Windows...when you VOLUNTARILY run a harmful script, it's your own fucking stupidity.

Macs are [currently] completely clean for the average home user. It's going to stay that way. The fact that there is little to no malware on Macs is not a result of the low market share. If that were the case, then the 5% Mac market share should have equated to 5% of the world's viruses, but this was never even close to the case.

You can call me a Mac Fanboy/Worshipper all you want, but the fact remains, Macs are fucking secure.

I'm with Robert and JCM. For a blog that makes this much money, it's downright wrong to get away with stealing stock photography. Remember, Mac people are often creatives, and we dislike you stealing from one of our own.

We often use the free version in the comps and pay for it when we decide it's the image we actually want to use. I'm assuming that's what happened here. Right?

First time poster and I'm doing it to slap the wrist of the author and agree with Robert. You guys are illegally using a photo from istockphoto.com. Come on, an image that size costs like $1.10 to LEGALLY use.

I wouldn't call "exploits" as in the main article, given that there's no particular flaw in the OS nor on software that this Trojan exploits, rather the stupidity of the user.

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As I wrote on my blog yesterday: this is sheer scaremongering. Bill Thompson seems more worried about kids getting infected by a trojan than he is about them looking at the porn sites which are the only source of it.

The mentions of YouTube and Flixster in this context are just downright dishonest, as they're Flash-based, and if he's so concerned about his little boy's welfare, why does his son have the admin password!?

Guys, if you're going to use stock photos from iStockPhoto, PAY THE THREE BUCKS. Don't steal it.

Here's an idea: Don't give your kids the admin password.