Who said there are no viruses for Mac? Flashback, he could take over 600 thousand computers, stealing users from user names and passwords
More than 600 thousand Macs were stuck harmful software called Flashback - a Trojan horse that uses loophole to access user names and passwords of users and to send these to a remote server. Most pollution in Canada, the United States and England, and Apple has released an update designed to block the loophole.
Harmful software, first discovered in September last year, posing as the installation software's popular Flash player Adobe. The software has been refined in recent months to bypass the antivirus mechanisms built on a Mac, and began using a new loophole in the system, abolishing the need to work on the user to confirm that installation, because the breach that allowed the Flashback install itself.
Mac is not immune to viruses
Mac has never been immune to viruses
Contrary to popular belief, OS X operating system of Macintosh computers is not immune from viruses. Although the system prompts for user approval every time it gives many rights to any application, and most applications work on a separate layer of the system that do not require permits but does not give authority, but all this does not prevent hackers from trying to work on that would give users an installation permit. As mentioned, Flashback is upgraded to use Java problem that you have installed does not even require user intervention.
However, Mac malware market is still relatively small, for the simple reason that the computer Apple market share is very low, about 10 percent. This market share makes the development of Mac malware free - Donations, especially much easier to develop malware to Microsoft's windows, which will include a large pool of potential victims immeasurably.
