'Leverage' Mac Malware Comes with a Kiss

[Guest]

A picture of a kissing couple hides a fairly insidious piece of Mac malware.

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[John Bauer]

but I thought Mac don't get virus's.... or trojans..

/s

 

[Rhinofart]

They are the same as any other PC, but more often overlooked because the user base is so small relative to Windows machines. Same as Linux.

 

[Pherule]

B-but Macs don't get viruses oneechan!

(sorry, couldn't resist)

 

[apone]

@ Rhinofart

That's just it, if this was a Windows malware issue, everyone would quickly bash Windows' security and it being inherently flawed. But because this is Mac OS X malware, now all of a sudden people are mindful of OS X's small marketshare relative to Windows. Also many Apple fans further justify the malware by saying "well it's different because the user has to open/download/install the infection, aka Social Engineering" when really that's pretty much that's how a Windows machine gets infected.