karmicdragonfly

I was reading a discussion of the latest Mac Trojan, and someone said that it was basically a problem with the users, meaning a user shouldn't just answer Yes to any dialog they are presented with. And the Mac user would also have to input a password. It's the user that allows such a trojan to be installed on the Mac in the first place.

Ok...but not all users are technically oriented, and even the best of us have our off days and click Yes before thinking. That's sort of the point of a Trojan -- it fools you into providing passwords and clicking Yes...

Someone posted a comment on the forum that suggested users should run a terminal command -- he was being sarcastic and yes, mean, because the command he posted -- [superuser] rm [-rf] / -- would recursively remove all files and directories on the Mac.

I know it was sort of a sarcastic joke...but I really don't like it that he posted a command like that without warning of the consequences.