Mac viruses up 75% over past 2 years

Submitted by Adam on October 22, 2006 - 8:49pm.

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While reading through the news from last week, I came across this story at CNN about the increase in the number of viruses in Macs this year.

The story gives most of it's attention to a story from last week about a PC viruses that was found on very few iPods (less than 1 percent). Reading a little further down, I saw this little gem:

"Oliver Friedrichs, director of security response at Symantec, a leading anti-virus software vendor, said 72 vulnerabilities were discovered in the Mac's OS X operating system in 2006, up from 19 in 2004."

I am not picking on Mac people here. I am picking on one argument that mac people use. Whenever a PC person tries to explain that Macs are only safer because they aren't as big of a target the standard Mac person rebuttal is that Macs have been around as long as PCs and they are safer by their nature because they run on a Linux-ish OS.

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