View this article at: http://www.macnn.com/articles/04/12/24/wsj.on.halo.effect/ Friday, Dec 24, 2004 12:00pm WSJ readers weigh in on Apple 'Halo Effect' Wall Street Journal columnists Tim Hanrahan and Jason Fry on Monday said that the combination of the iPod's popularity and the increasing worry over viruses, security holes and spyware in Windows PCs "will lead to the second coming of Apple Computer as a home-computing power." In response to that column, WSJ received countless emails with stories from new Mac users: iPod owners affected by the "halo effect," and non-iPod owners who switched for other reasons.