Macs a growing security risk, experts say

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SAN FRANCISCO — Benjamin Daines was browsing the Web when he clicked on a series of links that promised pictures of an unreleased update to his computer's operating system.

Instead, a window opened on the screen and strange commands ran as if the machine was under the control of someone — or something — else.

Daines was the victim of a computer virus.

Story (http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/chronicle/3830431.html)

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-{ Quote: "A Time to Patch III: Apple

Here's what I found: Over the past two years, after being notified about serious security flaws in its products, it took Apple about 91 days on average to issue patches to correct those vulnerabilities. I also found that almost without exception, other open-source Linux vendors were months ahead of Apple in fixing the same flaws." }-
Brian Krebs (http://blog.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2006/05/a_time_to_patch_iii_apple_2.html)