[LINK] as Apple's market share has risen, mac viruses and Trojans has fallen

Kim Holburn kim at holburn.net
Mon Dec 8 23:46:30 AEDT 2008


http://www.forbes.com/2008/12/03/apple-security-hackers-tech-security-cx_ag_1203apple.html?feed=rss_news
http://tinyurl.com/6k95fx

> Even as Apple's share of the computer market has risen, the  
> incidence of viruses and Trojans has--surprise--gone down. In the  
> last six months, Finnish cyber security firm, F-Secure, has detected  
> 13 new samples of malicious software, or "malware," targeting  
> Apple's OS X operating system.
>
> By contrast, every day F-Secure pulls from the Internet between  
> 20,000 and 30,000 new samples of malicious code aimed at PCs. "I  
> can't even calculate the percentage that targets Macs," says Patrik  
> Runald, a researcher with F-Secure. "It's peanuts."


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