Apple Macintosh users could be making themselves less secure by installing Symantec's flagship anti-virus application.
Apple Computer was investigating a reported security flaw Friday in its OS X operating system that could allow vandals to trick Macs into opening dangerous files, such as Trojan horses and viruses.
Research firm Gartner has issued a warning to companies using Mac OS to guard against malicious code attacks and spyware.
Symantec is warning that Apple's OS X operating system is increasingly becoming a target for hackers and malware authors.
AVG still has no plans to release a security product for Apple's OS X, despite first touting the idea more than a year ago.
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Symantec published its 10th Internet Threat Report this week and quietly admitted a few days later that its predictions of increasing Mac-targeted spyware threats have not been realised.
The latest Internet Threat Survey from Symantec is a whopping 120 pages and unlike in its previous reports, the company has avoided any mention of malware for Apple's OS X.
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Hackers are increasingly focusing on Apple's Mac OS X, and the number of newly discovered vulnerabilities has surged. Such a switch could mean big implications for Apple's user base, which has traditionally not had to concern itself too much over security.
What appears to be yet another Microsoft security patch for the MyDoom worm is actually a computer virus. Sober.d (w32.sober.d@mm, also known as Roca.a) is the fourth member of the Sober mass-mailing virus family written in Visual Basic.
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