Mac users hit by virus!

For years Mac users never agonized about computer viruses. They never got them! Us PC fans meanwhile had more than our share of the curse - the much feared blue screen of death. Now Macs are more popular and virus writers (a Biblical plague on the breed) are targetting the Macs. The iServices.A Trojan horse has found a comfortable home on Mac users who are fond of downloading torrents. A torrent website, for those not in the know, is where you go if you want to download and watch a pirated copy of that latest movie which hasnt even come to town yet. The downside - well you could get hit by an embedded virus like this Trojan which will connect your computer to somebody sitting five thousand miles away and that person can have a leisurely look at all your files, maybe copy your keyboard strokes and get in your bank account, and in general wreak havoc in your life. Maybe its worth waiting for that movie to see it legit.

If it aint broke dont change it!

Hard times are upon the world economy, and of course that means companies and individuals are not rushing out to get new computers or software. If its working fine and you are reasonably uptodate - why change it? For PC users this means maybe skipping Vista altogether and waiting for Windows 7. Loyal supporters of XP never did move to Vista, or after trying Vista rolled back. As for me - I have one computer with Vista and one with XP and have no problems moving from one to the other.

Which begs the question now that Microsoft is cutting back on 5000 jobs. Is the poor reception of Vista partly responsible? Or is it just that everybody is buying fewer computers and therefore fewer software upgrades?