{"id":402,"date":"2006-08-21T04:24:52","date_gmt":"2006-08-21T11:24:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.macnightowl.com\/2006\/08\/21\/newsletter-352-preview-the-kind-of-virus-even-a-mac-user-must-fear-3\/"},"modified":"2008-03-26T07:51:21","modified_gmt":"2008-03-26T14:51:21","slug":"newsletter-352-preview-the-kind-of-virus-even-a-mac-user-must-fear-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.technightowl.live\/blog\/2006\/08\/newsletter-352-preview-the-kind-of-virus-even-a-mac-user-must-fear-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Newsletter #351 Preview: The Kind of Virus Even a Mac User Must Fear"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, I know the stories. Mac users are not susceptible to viruses because the criminals responsible for malware don\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2t really care about a platform with a worldwide market share in the low single digits. If Apple\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s efforts to boost the number of Macs in homes and businesses bear fruit, there will be plenty of threats coming our way.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, the people who insist this is true don\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2t bother considering the fact that Mac market share was actually higher years ago, and the number of computer viruses affecting the platform was still small. Today, with a solid Unix foundation, Mac OS X surely isn\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2t totally immune to infection, but the situation still will be far better.<\/p>\n<p>But nothing is perfect. Worse, there\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s one thing that even the most powerful anti-virus, anti-virus and firewall software can\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2t prevent, and that is human error. 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