Apple Yanks Mac Virus Immunity Claims From Website

redletterdave writes "Apple quietly switched out a statement that claimed its Mac computers were completely immune to viruses with a less-forward statement: 'It's built to be safe.' The PR shift comes in the aftermath of the Flashback Trojan, which affected hundreds of thousands of Macs back in early April. From the article: 'Apple strives for perfection, but stating something is perfect when it isn't is ultimately bad for PR and company morale. Jobs used his reality distortion field to "rally the troops," so to speak, but "Mountain Lion" will ensure Apple can tout its closed, highly-secure operating system for the foreseeable future in a much more realistic sense. Just because a product isn't impervious to sickness doesn't mean it isn't "insanely great."'"

Comments

Re:Reality Distortion Field

[QuantumRiff]

Blame Al Gore, for innovating the Internet :)

Re:Yawn

[MobileTatsu-NJG]

What fool thinks that any computer system is immune to one sort of malware or another?

Linux zealots.

Re:Suprising that no one has sued.

[bitt3n]

It's sort of like saying that Ford cars are generally unaffected by Toyota's engineering flaws.

Then someone's Ford gets rear-ended by a runaway Toyota, and you end up with a class action suit against Ford for making such an outlandish claim.

Re:Suprising that no one has sued.

[jazman_777]

There's a car analogy for EVERY situation. Car analogies are like the cars you find in a junkyard, crushed.