Computer 'Worms' Turn on Macs

Carl Bialik from WSJ writes "Macs have been laregly immune to the viruses, worms and malware that have plagued PCs, but the Mac's recent popularity uptick has meant that 'bad guys appear to be casing the joint,' the Wall Street Journal reports. Among the signs: two recently discovered worms and the discovery of a vulnerability in Mac OS X that leaves Safari open to a hack. A Symantec engineer predicts a 'gradual erosion' of the idea that Macs are a safer operating system than Windows. 'Some security experts believe hackers are becoming more interested in writing nasty code for Macs precisely because of reports of its relative immunity to security woes,' the WSJ reports. 'Apple itself has gone out of its way not to promote the Mac's relative safety, lest it tempt hackers to prove the company wrong. Apple declined to discuss the topic of security in depth for this article.'"

Comments

Listen to those pathetic little mac zealots...

[Anonymous Coward]

I'm totally astounded by the amount of fact twisting and intellectual contorsionism some mac zealots subject themselves to in order to escape reality. How can you all keep breathing with those tons of sand over your heads ?

Read me lips: THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A SECURE OS. PERIOD. AND THERE NEVER WILL BE. EVER. GET IT ?

There are only two absolutes regarding computer security:

1) Hackers will ALWAYS be better and more skilled than security experts;

2) Users will ALWAYS be clueless assholes that will click on whatever the heck that little box on the screen tells them to click on.