increase of Macos malware from 2009 to 2018.

[macgig]

Interesting stats on malware.

https://www.av-test.org/en/statistics/malware/

 

[Raz0rEdge]

Bars with no backing data. Hard to take seriously.

 

[harryb2448]

Increases sales however Ashwin!

 

[macgig]

well an IT security expert I take classes from mentioned them on his course. I'm sure he would not mention them if he thought it was not a legit site. I'm as skeptical as anyone is but I have no problem with believing what they are posting in those graphs at least to some degree. I may email them to see if they explain how they got those numbers. Guess everyone can believe what they want and make their own conclusions.

here they mention how they do their tests. https://www.av-test.org/en/about-the-institute/test-procedures/

 

[macgig]

Increases sales however Ashwin!

for some people I guess. I've never paid for AV protection in 29 years using computers, PC or Mac, and never will as long as free programs that work are available.

 

[mrkramer]

I'm sure most of them are still trojans that come from people pirating things, or from sketchy adult websites. I also know some Mac antivirus applications scan emails and flag files that are infected with windows viruses to help prevent you from forwarding them on, if those are included in these numbers I would expect that to rise rabidly as the user base also rises.

 

[dtravis7]

for some people I guess. I've never paid for AV protection in 29 years using computers, PC or Mac, and never will as long as free programs that work are available.

Agree 100%.

 

[Cr00zng]

well an IT security expert I take classes from mentioned them on his course. I'm sure he would not mention them if he thought it was not a legit site. I'm as skeptical as anyone is but I have no problem with believing what they are posting in those graphs at least to some degree. I may email them to see if they explain how they got those numbers. Guess everyone can believe what they want and make their own conclusions.

here they mention how they do their tests. https://www.av-test.org/en/about-the-institute/test-procedures/

If you believe "in those graphs at least to some degree", at the very least they should be accurate across the graphs. ;D

These numbers, real or otherwise, only prove that antivirus solutions are useless. I for one don't believe for a second that they can keep up with 350,000 new malware/PUA per day and for that matter, even with couple of hundreds a day. Most of the antivirus solutions are still mainly signature based with some of them doing minor behavioral based blocking and some URL filtering. That's not going to cut it with that kind of constant malware stream.

 

[pm-r]

I for one don't believe for a second that they can keep up with 350,000 new malware/PUA per day and for that matter, even with couple of hundreds a day.

+1. They would sure need some huge staff to do that I would think, not to mention what the payroll would need to be.




- Patrick
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