First, Breathe… Â Yes, take a few deep breathes….
You see, we’re all doomed… Â Yes, indeedy, doomed I say. Â After all, the Macintosh Dashboard is the vector which all viruses will be created with in mind… Â And Windows viruses will disappear due to the popularity of the Dashboard vector…. Â (SLAP)… Â Sorry, I needed that, I was channeling my inner Mossberg…
Dashboard from Tiger may bring the first real OS X Virus…
This should be on the front page or somewhere when users can see it…
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! Â Going to this website downloads a Dashboard widget automatically, but heres the catch. It can’t be removed.
See, if this was going to happen, it already would have. Â This clip is from a 2005 posting over at Macrumors…
The original dashboard wasn’t very clear on how to remove a widget from the dashboard’s inventory. Â You could remove it from being active, but not from the inventory of your widgets…
The truth is that with the newer dashboards, that was mostly been cleared up. Â But here’s the secret, if you want to delete something from the dashboard inventory, there are two places to check…
~/library/widgets   and    /library/widgets
Remove the widget in question from there and restart dashboard, and your widget will be gone…
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