Apple’s growing popularity increasingly making Macs malware targets

chscag · Jun 20, 2011

Apple’s growing popularity increasingly making Macs malware targets

Good article about Mac malware from the Vancouver Business News.

iggibar · Jun 20, 2011

This is why I could honestly care less if the user share of Mac's stayed the same as it is. I don't want them to end up like M$FT in the soon future.

MYmacROX · Jun 20, 2011

*sarcasm* I'm shaking with fear. *sarcasm*

IvanLasston · Jun 20, 2011

I thought I posted this link somewhere but Daring Fireball has a good article called Wolf!
Daring Fireball: Wolf!

You do have to be careful - don't get me wrong, but since 2004 this story has run on various websites with various incarnations.

chscag · Jun 20, 2011

Good article. However, considering how complacent Mac owners are about malware, there certainly is something to this and the other article.

Generally, the first thing a new Windows user hears and learns, is to protect his\her machine from malware and infections. I don't want folks to get the impression that the "Sky is Falling" but it does behoove each one of us to engage in smart computing and not assume everything is OK.

Soylentgreen · Jun 21, 2011

Not to mention some of the most powerful viruses and Trojans didn’t spread from unknown sources, but came from someone clicking a link in an email that they thought was legit.
I have told so many people, when they see an email that says they need to log in and change their password, that it is probably a spoof of a phishing email…yet they click on it anyway and attempt to log in.
It’s not the Trojans that snuck in, but the ones people willingly install that plague the IT world.

Apple’s growing popularity increasingly making Macs malware targets

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