Even Apples get viruses....
They come at you from every angle — email, websites, flash memory sticks — and if you’re sensible you have some sort of anti-virus chugging away in the bottom right-hand corner of your screen. That’s never been true of Apple’s Mac range. Ask many seasoned Mac fanatics about anti-virus software and they will snort: “Macs don’t get viruses, man, everyone knows that”. But that changed earlier this month when one of the first Mac viruses was discovered “in the wild”. I say “virus” but to be strictly correct it falls into the broader category of malicious software (or “malware”). Unlike a virus It doesn’t spread secretly and automatically by hijacking communications between users. Rather it relies on the user giving it permission to do its dirty work. But who would give it permission in the first place? That’s the whole trick: the malware masquerades as anti-virus software called Mac Defender. It lies in wait on fake websites built specifically to attract Mac users and, when ...
