Apple pulls antivirus tech note

Oops. Apparently, undercutting one of your major selling points during the Christmas season is not the best way to shore up your stock price. To be fair, further research showed the doc was actually from 2007 - i.e. it was nothing new - and merely caught the attention of bloggers when the version numbers were updated on the "recommended software." My guess is this page will mysteriously return around January 1, to cover Apple from frivolous lawsuits.

Apple now suggests "multiple" Antivirus programs

After years of bragging about MacOS X's invulnerability to computer virii (there has never been a virus for MacOS X seen in the wild), they are now changing their tune. Not only are they recommending antivirus software, but actually recommending multiple, overlapping software so that hackers can not target only a single algorithm. This leads to the obvious question: "What do they know that we do not?" Is this simply a move to insulate them against potential future lawsuits, or is there a MacOS X virus out there that we just don't know about yet?