Virus on a Mac - Nope, still does not happen

I love the news. especially the liberal news. The unending need to tear down, re-write, re-invent, or just flat out re-make reality seems to be a prerequisite for liberal reporting. At first I used to believe that the liberal mantra, "re-write history et all" was limited solely to the political arena.

However in my quest for truth, justice and the American way (thanx Clark) I have been forever encumbered with Snope worthy tails surrounding everything from what color the letter red is, to how much did Dick drink before he shot his buddy soliloquies of bad faith writing.

Take this story from CNN. The headline (always the tact all go getter into spinning you in a direction you never thought possible) "Viruses catch up to the Mac."

Ah, ok... What? In a nutshell this one sided look at the world of Mac, you know that measly 3% of the computing market, fires new hatred upon that which many do not yet understand.

The story tells a tall tale of a dote named Ben who, while surfing for porn no doubt, gets a message on his system telling him to update his operating system. The avid Mac user that "Benjamin "Dumbass" Daines" (we'll call him), then begins clicking over and over at a feverish pace to insure his Mac is bright and shinny with new found updated delight.

Only one problem here. Macs are never, and have never been updated via messages from a web browser. Me thinks Ben is using Windows.

With my avid sense of smell for BULL SHIT, and Snope detector on...

The Mac OS is, and pretty much always has been (even prior to OSX) updated via the Mac OS's own built in update system. It does not utilize HTTP, web browsers, or otherwise sorted messages frantically exclaiming, "its time update you little fuck nut Benny!!!" Click here on the nice porn laden image of Jessica Alba to update your MacOSX system to Kitty Cat 109.

Come on CNN, at least do a little research. At least find a real Mac user, or someone with a little less LSD in their system.

My keen senses in BULL SHIT sniffing have also led me to this interesting little part of the article:

"Behind the scenes, the virus also managed to hijack his instant messaging program, so the rogue file was blasted to 10 people on his buddy list."

Oh, so what was Benny bad boy using for a messenger? You can't blame the OS for a buggy program that allows itself to be exploited. Was he using iChat? I know of no exploits for iChat. But I know of several for that,,,,, um, shall we say, OTHER IM program???

One simple fact that CNN seems to forget in this article is that neither Apple, nor Mac users have never made the claim that there are no viruses out there for the Mac. Sure there are... There always have been. The thing is, Mac users just tend not to be stupid enough to get infected. Because for one, Apple is always up to date on their patches, and lest we all forget, the OS itself is not inherently flawed with bugs, like (again, shall we say some other OS maker)... --- MICROSOFT products!

This article is nothing other than another in a long line of flame bait pug fart worthless stories designed solely to attack something better.

The article does end citing several facts that should have been more heavily emphasized throughout the article. Things like,

"Mac OS X, he said, is designed to be Internet-safe out of the box, without the need for firewalls or additional security software. He praised Mac OS X for making it easy for users to automatically install security patches."

or

"He noted that the operating system was derived from FreeBSD, open source software that was built from the ground up to provide security for computers networked together. Since its origins in the early 1990s, the Unix-based FreeBSD has continually been battle-tested by college students and computer security specialists."

We're obviously not comparing Apples (no pun) to Oranges here folks.

The closing words of the article bewilder me to no end (as does most liberal double speak):

"We're all sort of waiting with bated breath to see if any problem will happen and the jury is still out,"

If that is the case, why does the article seek to insist that the Jury is indeed in, and the MacOS is wreaked by file deleting demons of such Biblical proportion that the Windoze world has never seen?

Yet another warped AP article bent for the likes of CNN.. As usual, no credit or source is given for the author of the story. Who the hell writes this stuff anyway?