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Written by: 7/21/2011 10:28 AM
I wrote a blog on the perceived safety of Mac vs. PCs several months back. And back then, when I was young and naïve, I did spout the appropriate “Yeah, Macs are safe but they aren’t impenetrable fortresses” line.
But, admittedly, I didn’t really believe it.
And then, last week:
1) My Mac became incredibly lethargic and slow due to all the junk that’s piled up on it, and more notably,
2) My husband’s account was hacked by some random person in some random Slavic country, for seedy purposes hitherto unknown.
Now, neither of those things are necessarily the Mac’s fault. My Mac is slow because I am a little too indiscriminate about the websites I visit when I’m using it. And we haven’t yet been able to completely trace my husband’s hacker to malware or viruses.
However, I guess the sentiment bears repeating: no system is immune to junk, and no one is really completely safe, whether using a Mac, a PC, a web-linked cell phone or television, or any other device that links up.
I enjoyed this general article on malware: how it gets there, what it’s used for, etc. Read and believe.
Read more here: http://www.zdnet.com/blog/bott/trojans-viruses-worms-how-does-malware-get-on-pcs-and-macs/3491