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More and more there seems to be a building trend with Malware writers are developing ways to find both Mac systems and PC Systems. In a diary talking about that one mans journey leads to a site that can detect which system you are on and offer up Malware for that system. He also has some other examples of this on a Mac Trojan in the wild.
Now more and more[intlink id=”2173″ type=”post”] Apple users think they are not vulnerable[/intlink] to the types of antics that the PC users have to deal with day by day. This however proves they are “WRONG”. I will keep telling people whether PC or Mac that you need to have [intlink id=”2205″ type=”page”]Anti-virus and Firewalls[/intlink] installed to help protect yourself from be victim to this type of stuff. Just a last week Sopho’s issued the OSX/Tored-Fam worm to their databases. Sopho’s even talks about this in detail on their blog.
[ad]Though admittedly it is the people who are searching for Porn that will most likely install this malware. It however begs the question, hasn’t this been done on the PC systems before? I have to think this is because the Apple is getting a bigger share of the systems in the world. For the one reason people still think they will never get Viruses or Worms on there system. I on the other hand know that this is just the beginning and in the near future Apple will have to recommend to people to have Anti-virus software on your system. They did that in the past but changed their minds.
Apple’s stance on malware and their systems are one that will be their downfall. I’ve talked in the past about [intlink id=”694″ type=”post”]Mac\’s getting viruses and other such Malware[/intlink]. Although to Apple’s benefit they do offer ProtectMac AntiVirus for the OSX. I don’t know how good this is but I do think they need to change their advertising and not make it seem like the Macintosh has can’t get viruses. I think it would be really funny to see Justin Long in the Mac ads get a Virus, although I don’t think that will happen it is something that I would love to see.
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