![]() According to Malwarebytes, not only was there a 230% year-on-year increase in Mac malware last July, the first half of 2017 has already seen more Mac malware than all of 2016 or indeed, any other year. Interestingly, this year has been quite different in regards to Mac malware activity. With far fewer users to target compared to Windows, malware creators didn’t have enough incentive to develop as many viruses for Apple’s personal computing platform. This has largely been due to the substantially smaller market share of Mac OS X. Compared to Windows malware however, the amount of Mac targeted malware has always been minimal. Obviously, Macs have never been totally virus-free. Is this finally the end of Mac OS’s reputation as relatively virus-free? With more than 4 months to go before the year ends, this year has already seen more Mac specific malware than any other.
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