A week ago, I did my public service duties and linked the MacDefender protection and removal guide that Steve Sande wrote to my Facebook wall. Then I braced for the comments. Luckily, none of the taunts I expected about Macs now being subject to malware came to light. What I did get was general surprise that Mac users had to be aware of such a thing.
"I thought Macs couldn't get viruses and such," one commenter said.
Sadly, it's not the case any longer. As fast as we're educating people on how to fight MacDefender, and Apple is developing a patc