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Is it even confirmed that it is indeed a virus? Exploiting a vulnerability is not a virus, but simply a malware, by the extended definition. And no one is safe from malware, unless the system is intelligent enough to guess the program's intention before it executes it...
Virus
a computer program usually hidden within another seemingly innocuous program that produces copies of itself and inserts them into other programs and that usually performs a malicious action (as destroying data)
And what about that gratuitious quote about us being in "denial": deny something that doesn't exist is not denial...
Denial
a (1) : refusal to admit the truth or reality (as of a statement or charge) (2) : assertion that an allegation is false b : refusal to acknowledge a person or a thing
so if it turns out this is in fact a virus, and people still say we don't have virus, then, and only then they can say we live in denial.
I see nothing new here: it could have happened with the Safari/auto-open bug that could run terminal command disguised in an innocuous-looking JPEG. 
Edit: seems this news was posted here a few hours ago...
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Isn't that story a few months old? As in the "unreleased update" referencing the supposedly leaked screen shots of 10.5 contained in a .zip file?
Old news.
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Did you hear about this Microsoft project called "Windows"? It's supposed to put a Mac-style interface on DOS! I don't think it'll catch on, though.
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The guy was an idiot anyway; looking for pictures of 'pre-release' Apple software. He deserved whatever came to him.
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The story IS old. Quite old.
And there's also another thread two hours older than this one on the same subject. Let's keep it in that one, eh?
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