Symantec: Mac OS X Becoming a Malware Target

tb3 writes "According to ZDNet 'Security vendor Symantec is warning that Apple's OS X operating system is increasingly becoming a target for hackers and malware authors.' They go on to warn that the only thing that's protected Apple users from exploits so far has been the small number of Macs on the net. Now that people are buying Apple products for 'style over function,' according to one analyst, Apple computer has become a target for new attacks. More coverage on Australian IT and Silicon.com. I guess sales of Norton Anti-Virus for Mac needed a boost." Symantec may well be right about this, but note that they also have the world's biggest vested interest in making Mac owners nervous enough to buy their anti-virus products.

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Dear Symantec:

[spir0]

hahahahahahahaahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaaha ha.

You released your April Fools joke a little early.

I am happy knowing that if I enter the super-user account password while randomly surfing the net, it's my own fault.

I am happy knowing that if I get forwarded email based VBscript trojans/viruses/worms, nothing will happen because I have OS X, not Active X OS.

I am happy knowing that 99.99% of malware/spyware coders will not bother with Macs because 5% of the computers in the world still add up to a piss in Bill's pond.

I am comfortable in the assumption that once malware/spyware coders buy a Mac, and start coding on OS X, they will give up on their goals of world deterioration, and join the rest of us who have come to understand that computer utopia does actually exist.