oh, and yeah... ... if you get an E-Mail with a "JPEG" by a "friend", drag it to Preview, don't let Mail.app open it, because it's obviously Launch Services, which'll still open the shell script in a shell, possibly doing harm to your Mac. (It's still not a virus, though.) ;) ...

On a more serious note: The last couple of days have shown a few attempts to tinker with Mac OS X' security. While the statement, that there's no virus for Mac OS X, is still true, it might not be in the future. It's not impossible to exploit security issues of Mac OS X. They exist. But if people like to say "Macs are not more secure than Windows", they ignore how easily viruses on Windows spread and do harm. - posted by Patrick Armbruster @ 13:27 [article link]