Mac Virus

May 01, 2006

CNN.com - Viruses catch up to the Mac - May 1, 2006

[Benjamin Daines] and at least one other person who clicked on the links were infected by what security experts call the first virus for Mac OS X, the operating system that has shipped with every Mac sold since 2001 and has survived virtually unscathed from the onslaught of malware unleashed on the Internet in recent years.

"It just shows people that no matter what kind of computer you use you are still open to some level of attack," said Daines, a 29-year-old British chemical engineer who once considered Macs invulnerable to such attacks. ...

"A lot of Mac users are in denial and have blinders on that say, `Nothing is ever going to get to us,' " said Neil Fryer, a computer security consultant who works for an international financial institution in Britain. "I can't say I agree with them."

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