The is designed with built-in technologies that provide protection against malicious software and security threats right out of the box.

I wonder how they're feeling about that now?

Windoze fanz can't really gloat, though. There's an even nastier worm wriggling through holes in Windows RPC Server Service. ," it's been infecting an average of one million machines a day. At this point 10 million machines have been nailed, but , according to the wonks at Secureworks.

Nobody knows what Conficker's ultimate purpose will be, but selling Girl Scout Cookies won't be it. Looks like 2009 is starting out nasty in all kinds of ways. Be careful out there.

Have you been nailed by Mac Malware or Windows Worms? E-mail me directly: cringe@infoworld.com.