A Guide to Malware for Mac OSX

Introduction

A general misconception is that the OSX operating system cannot be infected with malware or viruses, in fact this is not true. There have been various large outbreaks of malware on OSX the most recent being Mac-Defender. Mac-Defender was a virus that once installed would require you to pay to remove the “viruses” from your infected Mac. Just like virus progression on Microsoft Windows the viruses affecting OSX will become more and more powerful. By powerful I don’t necessarily mean damaging though, a viruses power might be in it’s subtlety, or in it’s ability to accurately log keystrokes.  Right now there have only been a few cases and the majority of them were easy to contain, however I believe that once advance malware programmers turn there gaze to OSX the damage will be devastating. Read more