Mac users may have a false sense of security
Posted in Security by John T P on December 29th, 2005 Spyware and keystroke loggers have often been thought of as a Windows only problem, but Nicholas Raba, CEO of SecureMac.com and co-author of Maximum Security says many Apple Macintosh users may have a false sense of security. SecureMac has released MacScan which detects and removes Macintosh spyware, remote administration utilities and keystroke loggers.
MacScan, one of the few Macintosh anti-spyware programs, was released in 2002 and recently reached version 2.0. It currently recognizes, quarantines and deletes dozens of spyware programs and keystroke loggers.
Raba said that spyware makers have not hit the Macintosh as hard as Windows because there is much more money to be made by spreading spyware on Windows. He adds that it is technically a bit harder to get malicious code to run on Mac OS X’s BSD-based kernel.
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December 30, 2005 @ 3:50 am
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Mac users may have a false sense of security: Yet another post on how Mac users just think that they can browse the web without getting hit by any form of spyware or viruses. I will always say that Mac users will never be safe!