Windows Vista already has a virus

Windows Vista (ne Longhorn) is still very much in BETA and not even a month old, yet it already has a virus. The first bug has prompted a smart response from NYTimes Blogger David Pogue who points out that the premiere of a Vista virus shoots some holes throught he conventional wisdom about why Apple's OS still remains virus-free.

He writes, "One reader, commenting on this news, added this postscript in a note to me: 'I think this is an excellent counter-example to the claim that 'Nobody writes viruses for Mac OS X because it has low market share.' Uh, I think we can safely say that OSX has considerably higher market share than Vista, yet here we are already!'" Continued...

I'm inclined to agree. Yesterday Pogue laughed about how one blogger joked "Vista is actually an acronym for the top five Windows problems: "viruses, infections, spyware, trojans and adware." His next post, today, is on the first virus.
Eric, my brother, has been BETA testing Vista and apparently loves the voice-recognition and the virtual folders (which is a feature I truly love in OS X Tiger).

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