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    A New Mac Virus? Be Careful What You Wish For!

    February 18th, 2006

    Some people might have felt safe referring to Mac OS X as the “teflon operating system,” because it was free of real virus threats. Proofs of concept didn’t count. But the news that there is, at last, genuine Mac malware in the wild should end your complacency for good. The offending file bears the innocuous […]


    The Mac Malware Report for 2005

    December 31st, 2005

    Oh, that’s right, unless you believe what a very few might tell you, there is nothing to report about Mac malware. Despite some security leaks that Apple patched over the year, there were no official confirmations that any of those leaks were actually exploited. So we are left with a potential but not necessarily a […]


    Mac Security: Don’t Get Overconfident!

    May 28th, 2005

    You have to feel smug when you hear the statistics. Over 80% of PC users have been infected by spyware, and, dozens of spyware applications are typically found on their computers. Even the fastest Pentium-based workstations can slow to a crawl under this abuse. If you want to get a small picture of the damage […]