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The Annoyed Man wrote: You're laying the blame on the Mac user when the original offender was the PC user who sent him the infected file in the first place.

As far as I can tell, he was the originator of the file, this was not a re-forward of an attachment from someone else, I don't know the origin of the file, nor do I much care, he passed it to me and is ultimately responsible for the content.

The Annoyed Man wrote:I helped a guy in my Bible study try to recover from this same issue the other day. He is not really computer literate, and he had finally taken his laptop to the Geek Squad, who had finally done a clean install of Vista on top of the old XP. So he lost all of his files, etc. I got his email accounts set back up for him, and showed him how to find his webmail accounts, and stuff like that. I also put the bug in his ear that the next time he goes to buy a computer, he should take a long hard look at Macs. Nobody I know who is on Mac, including myself, has ever had any issues like this since we started using them. Yep. You do pay a little more for the computers; but you get a whole lot more peace of mind.

I had a friend, "had" being the operative term for the moment, who is a real Mac fanatic. Recently he forwarded me an attached file about soldiers in Iraq, and when I opened it, I noticed some excessive disk activity, and then the Spyware 2008 popups started appearing, apparently it piggybacked past my firewall in the file he sent me, and modified my registry so that one of many copies of itself loads every time I boot up. Not easy to get rid of at all, but I seem to have finally done so. I notified my erstwhile friend of what had occurred, and his response was "Well, that wouldn't happen if you had a Mac." Seems as though he doesn't feel very responsible for spreading a Trojan Horse like this, which makes me feel less like being his friend.