The fact is, as the Mac platform has become more popular it’s become an increasingly interesting target for the criminals, hackers and ne’er-do-well people behind attacks both organized and chaotic.
But are Apple users still safe from bad software and online threats?Īnd that answer might surprise you. I still remember a few years ago destroying and throwing away my father’s Gateway PC because it was so badly infected with malware that I couldn’t clean it, even with a hard drive reformat. In all that time, I’ve remained a bit smug about the safety of using Mac OS X versus the virus-riddled Microsoft Windows. I’ve owned just about every Mac system that made it to market, starting with a Mac 512K and even owning a Mac clone for a few years when Apple let other companies license and use their operating system. I’ve been on Apple systems since before the Mac was introduced, and one of the first computers I really used was an Apple II.
