Microsoft: Macs 'Not Safe From Malware, Attacks Will Increase'

An anonymous reader writes "Microsoft researchers have analyzed a new piece of Mac malware that uses a multi-stage attack similar to typical Windows malware infection routines. In a post titled 'An interesting case of Mac OSX malware' the Microsoft Malware Protection Center closed with this statement: 'In conclusion, we can see that Mac OSX is not safe from malware. Statistically speaking, as this operating system gains in consumer usage, attacks on the platform will increase. Exploiting Mac OSX is not much different from other operating systems. Even though Mac OSX has introduced many mitigation technologies to reduce risk, your protection against security vulnerabilities has a direct correlation with updating installed applications.'"

Comments

The voice of experience

[sootman]

If anyone has a lot of viruses to examine, it's Microsoft!

Re:Not really surprising

[Anonymous Coward]

Virus ? Seriously you can craft some damned document in postscript that can thrash any system that has the ps interpreter.
PS is a turing complete language. You can pull some crazy stuff with this shit.

Re:"Get the Facts"

[K. S. Kyosuke]

Most of this has been known by, well, knowledgeable users by a long time. Most of the malware now comes via third party software or stupid users. It really doesn't matter what platform you use, as hackers will find a way around to get the best bang.

As one of my great compatriots once said: Artificial intelligence will soon best the natural one, but there's no adequate substitute for natural stupidity.

Re:Not really surprising

[dynamo52]

... no one got fired for running Linux

That's because by the time they had a fully functional system, there were so many obscure configurations, custom scripts, and dirty hacks required that they are the only one who knows how to administer it.