OS X Viruses: What's the truth?

[Lacero]

Most of the security breaches in OSX comes not from viruses, but from trojan horses, which basically means it would require social engineering to do its job. Even the threat of trojan horses has been reduced with OSX now notifying users when they first run a suspicion program for the first time.

 

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Ask Apple why do they have to release those so called "security patches"? Probably because a Hacker working for them is telling them... "hu, you might want to check this, I just broke into the system, let's fix that" and time and time again...

Generally the reports come from outside sources that find flaws in the OS or it's pieces/parts. For more info on vulnerabilities found in most OS' in a weekly email, subscribe (free) at https://portal.sans.org/


Personally I think the "marketshare" argument is a bit of FUD. Sure, there are loads more PCs out there and they are a ripe, easy target. But there are still how many Mac OS X users out there worldwide? 2 million? 5 million? 10 million? More? It's not like that's a particularly small target.