FIRST FIRMWARE WORM FOR MAC - WINDOWS FANBOYS EVERYWHERE REJOICE

I'm a Mac user. Always have been. I'm not such a fanboy to think that one system is better than another. That's just ridiculous. I love the Apple environment. It works for me, and that's all I need. I used to get worked up over the argument about viruses and Macs. Now, I just shrug it off because it's pointless really. Macs are not immune. There's no super power that this particular machine has when it comes to dealing with viruses. The people concocting these viruses just aren't really making them for Mac. Theres less of these machines in the market place.

I saw on WIRED the the world's first firmware worm that infects Macs was announced. I'm guessing Windows fanboys and gals everywhere are rejoicing. Let the finger pointing begin. It makes me giggle. A worm is essentially a sub-class of a virus and can travel from computer to computer, but the kicker is that it can travel without human interaction.

The video above will give you a good idea of what happens. It basically changes the code built into the motherboard which means that swapping the hard drive will have no effect and neither will reinstalling the OS X. Apple has started patching these security issues, and I'm sure they will completely patch this all up in the near future.