{"id":2474,"date":"2010-02-11T07:25:03","date_gmt":"2010-02-11T11:25:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/?p=2474"},"modified":"2010-02-11T07:25:03","modified_gmt":"2010-02-11T11:25:03","slug":"macintosh-dashboard-may-bring-the-first-real-os-x-virus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/2010\/02\/macintosh-dashboard-may-bring-the-first-real-os-x-virus\/","title":{"rendered":"Macintosh Dashboard may bring the first real OS X Virus&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First, Breathe&#8230; \u00c2\u00a0Yes, take a few deep breathes&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>You see, we&#8217;re all doomed&#8230; \u00c2\u00a0Yes, indeedy, doomed I say. \u00c2\u00a0After all, the Macintosh Dashboard is the vector which all viruses will be created with in mind&#8230; \u00c2\u00a0And Windows viruses will disappear due to the popularity of the Dashboard vector&#8230;. \u00c2\u00a0(SLAP)&#8230; \u00c2\u00a0Sorry, I needed that, I was channeling my inner Mossberg&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Dashboard from Tiger may bring the first real OS X Virus&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>This should be on the front page or somewhere when users can see it&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>WARNING: Only visit this website if you want to see the simulation of a malicious dashboard widget! Accessing this website will only download a widget that is 100% SAFE but simulates a malicious widget! \u00c2\u00a0Going to this website downloads a Dashboard widget automatically, but heres the catch. <strong>It can&#8217;t be removed.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>See, if this was going to happen, it already would have. \u00c2\u00a0This clip is from a 2005 posting over at Macrumors&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The original dashboard wasn&#8217;t very clear on how to remove a widget from the dashboard&#8217;s inventory. \u00c2\u00a0You could remove it from being active, but not from the inventory of your widgets&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The truth is that with the newer dashboards, that was mostly been cleared up. \u00c2\u00a0But here&#8217;s the secret, if you want to delete something from the dashboard inventory, there are two places to check&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>~\/library\/widgets \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 and \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \/library\/widgets<\/p>\n<p>Remove the widget in question from there and restart dashboard, and your widget will be gone&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/forums.macrumors.com\/showthread.php?t=125310\">Dashboard from Tiger may bring the first real OS X Virus&#8230; &#8211; Mac Forums<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First, Breathe&#8230; \u00c2\u00a0Yes, take a few deep breathes&#8230;. You see, we&#8217;re all doomed&#8230; \u00c2\u00a0Yes, indeedy, doomed I say. \u00c2\u00a0After all, the Macintosh Dashboard is the vector which all viruses will be created with in mind&#8230; \u00c2\u00a0And Windows viruses will disappear due to the popularity of the Dashboard vector&#8230;. \u00c2\u00a0(SLAP)&#8230; \u00c2\u00a0Sorry, I needed that, I was <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/2010\/02\/macintosh-dashboard-may-bring-the-first-real-os-x-virus\/\">[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[12,5,25,35],"tags":[111,1831,84,31,212,119],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2474"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2474\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. The constant WPCACHEHOME must be set in the file wp-config.php and point at the WP Super Cache plugin directory. -->