It is wrong to think that a Mac operating system is safe from malware.

"Since 2005, there has been a marked increase in the number of vulnerabilities in the Mac OS which can be used to conduct an attack via the Internet," said Gun Suk Ling, managing director for Kaspersky Lab, Southeast Asia.

Recently, secure content management solutions developer Kaspersky Lab announced the release of its latest product Kaspersky Anti-Virus for Mac. It shields the Mac OS against viruses, worms and Trojan as well as similar problems on other operating systems such as Windows and Linux.

It has been observed that the introduction of Mac OS X has made known on a wide scale the usefulness of multi-platform computers, and thus created a room for Mac in corporate and home networks.

The flipside of the coin, however, is that multi-platform feature also made the Mac, like any other computers in a network, prone to malware attack.

"Just because they have not been infected in the past does not mean they are safe now," Gun said. "For example, a Mac machine may be compromised by Trojans or key loggers without the user being alerted to the presence of the threat."

By: DocMemory
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