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Kymmy · 04-07-2010, 11:02

MAC Virii (harmfull ones) have been noted since the early '90s with stuff like COWHAND (early form of open proxy virus) and MBDF (liked to corrupt system files to a point of a reinstall was needed)

I think though in the last 10 years virii for MACs simply wasn't profitable as most virii is designed to botnet/keylog/spam in such a way that it's helpful to criminal activity.

The days of MAC's being seen as safe machines is coming to an end as more and more businesses use them they will be targeted more and more. Also I usually lump together the iphone and ipad with MACs and it's these devices that will see the biggest explosion in exploits..

04-07-2010, 11:02	#40
Kymmy Inactive Join Date: Dec 2007 Posts: 18,385	Re: Macs never get viruses MAC Virii (harmfull ones) have been noted since the early '90s with stuff like COWHAND (early form of open proxy virus) and MBDF (liked to corrupt system files to a point of a reinstall was needed) I think though in the last 10 years virii for MACs simply wasn't profitable as most virii is designed to botnet/keylog/spam in such a way that it's helpful to criminal activity. The days of MAC's being seen as safe machines is coming to an end as more and more businesses use them they will be targeted more and more. Also I usually lump together the iphone and ipad with MACs and it's these devices that will see the biggest explosion in exploits..