Technomedia reports tell us that a large percentage of Windows PCs malware—viruses, trojans, worms—come from Eastern Europe, specifically Russia. Even though there are no in-the-wild viruses on the Mac, from Russia with love comes the cure for the virus plague that doesn’t exist.

Now Mac users can protect their systems from malicious objects using the Russian anti-virus that incorporates cutting-edge technologies created by Doctor Web.

Wanna bet that Dr. Web knows some of the very people who actually make viruses, trojans, and worms?

Mac OS X was considered immune to viruses and other malicious program and since the number of its users was relatively small, it didn’t attract attention of virus makers. So the illusion was upheld. However, popularity of Mac OS X is growing among users as well as cyber-criminals. Today a reliable anti-virus protecting a Mac from malware has become a necessity.

So, if I understand this correctly, Dr. Web has a solution for a problem that does not really exist, a cure for a disease that no one has. Where’s the list of what it does and what it cures?

Dr. Web anti-virus for Mac detects and neutralizes viruses, spyware, adware, hacking tools, paid dialers and jokers targeting MAC OS X as well as malware written for other platforms.

Dr. Web. English press release, Russian web site. I feel safer already.

PC Magazine on the differences between how Apple and Microsoft release a new operating system version. It’s night vs. day.

Microsoft releases the public betas in order to get feedback and telemetry from testers to improve the product. Apple, on the other hand, will drop its new OS down from heaven (or, rather, Cupertino), without soliciting a word of feedback on in-development code from ordinary users.

Known major changes in OS X Leopard: 64-bit kernel, QuickTime X, Grand Central, support for Microsoft Exchange servers. Add to that my prediction of no support for PowerPC Macs, and a new user interface theme, ala iTunes.

Remarkable specifications and long list of features for a Chinese-made iPhone knock-off that sells for $99. Nicholas Carlson:

Want a smartphone that looks just like Apple’s iPhone but costs half as much and claims a battery life twice as long?

You gotta love the name. 200 Fashion Mobile Phone PG220. It’s an iPhone from a distance. Up close? Not so much. Features? No multi-touch, 2GB of storage, only 72 hours of standby, but it has an FM radio. My iPhone streams more internet radio stations than any FM receiver.

John Paczkowski points out the lies, damned lies, and statistics regarding Mac sales. They’re up. And they’re down. It all depends on who you talk to. The top two market research firms gave strikingly different numbers for Mac shipments in the spring quarter. From All Things D:

So what are we to make of this? A disparity of more than 200,000 units between the the Q2 domestic Mac shipment estimates of two top market research outfits? Is it a 2.5 percent year-over-year increase. Or a 12.4 percent year-over-year decrease?

I just flipped a quarter to determine whether sales are up or down.

What happens when a designer’s company goes out of business and he becomes unemployed? Etsy and a gallery of stickers for MacBook users.

My favorite:

For the Mac do-it-yourselfer, the web site iFixit is a great resource:

We now have manuals for 91 Mac models, 34 iPods, and a couple of iPhones. Together, our media servers currently host 154,556 images (including revision history and thumbnails) and over 1,000 step-by-step guides.

And now a bombshell for do-it-yourself repair folks from iFixit:

Today, we are giving all that content to the world. Effective immediately, we are licensing all iFixit repair manuals under the Creative Commons BY-NC-SA license. To my knowledge, this is the largest free release of repair documentation ever. We are committing to make our repair manuals available to everyone in the world, forever, for free.

That’s a strange business model, but thanks.

iPhone competitor Palm announced dismal revenue figures and big losses for last quarter. What of the new Palm Pre?

It’s unlikely the Pre will catch up to Apple’s iPhone anytime soon, analysts are predicting a heavy volume of sales. Some say that the company could sell about 100,000 handsets in July and 200,000 in August.

Apple sold over 1-million iPhones the first weekend. So, why is Palm CEO Jon Rubenstein, a former Apple employee, saying, “We couldn’t be happier?” They did what other companies don’t do. They copied Apple, so they have a chance.