BenV wrote:
I'd recon fairly soon you will. More people with Mac's = more people wanting to cause random trouble.
yes. It has begun actually. Read up on security sites and such, apple is not the impenetrable castle it is made out to be. It has holes just like windows, just no market for exploiting them just yet. They only benefit from the fact malware writers want to target M$ since more common. For the script kiddies looking for street cred...they are going for more bang for the buck. Get more credibility taking out 200,000 windows computers than 20,000 Mac's. For the pro's looking to make some hits (and therefore money) with crap that highjacks browsers, purely a business decision. More M$ puters than Macs. Common sense says go for the largest cash cow since whatever you make will have a removal tool within days.
No point in dividing and conquering at this point. Next few years though...I can see many malware writers going on safari's....
Linux benefits from this protection as well for now. I am equal oppurtunity lol. Linux has holes as well, but we are an even smaller market than Mac OS in the home. Well that and with *nix dependencies, kind of hard to know what libs your target computers will have lol...
That is true hidden_markov but equally all the viruses targetting OS X are trojan type which require a user to execute it, AFAIK there hasn't yet been a 'proper' OS X virus... though I think it is only a matter of time.
