>Honestly, listening to some Mac user responses to this problem, it's like entering a timewarp back to when all the measures implemented on Windows/IE to deal with this stuff hadn't even been thought up.

That's because many of the measures implemented on windows are fundamentally flawed. Virus/Malware scanners? Really? So we want to turn infecting people's computers into a business?

The MS approach has always been to make money on working around defects. I really, really hope Apple doesn't decide to go down this route.