A blogger claiming to have written a worm -- called Rape.osx -- for Apple Mac OS X has received death threats.
An Italian security researcher this week has developed the first Web-based e-mail worm capable of taking advantage of cross site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in multiple Web-mail services.
Apple has plugged around 100 vulnerabilities in OS X so far this year but the malware threat to Mac customers is "insignificant" compared to users of Microsoft Windows.
Antivirus experts from Kaspersky Labs have predicted that 90 percent of current malware will run on Microsoft's latest operating system, Windows Vista.
Microsoft has confirmed that Vista can be affected by malware from 2004, but argues this is not a flaw in the operating system.
Software vendor CA recently took me for a tour around their AV research centre in Melbourne, where I got to visit their "live virus" room, which was the only place in the building I saw a Mac.
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