{"id":10077,"date":"2012-04-05T15:50:41","date_gmt":"2012-04-05T20:50:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techcitement.com\/?p=10077"},"modified":"2012-04-05T22:00:01","modified_gmt":"2012-04-06T03:00:01","slug":"yes-even-macs-can-get-viruses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/hardware\/yes-even-macs-can-get-viruses\/","title":{"rendered":"This Shouldn&#8217;t Be A Surprise: Even Macs Can Get Viruses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/techcitement.comhardware\/yes-even-macs-can-get-viruses\/attachment\/flashbackinfectionsmap_610x333\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10078\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-10078 aligncenter\" title=\"flashbackinfectionsmap_610x333\" src=\"https:\/\/techcitement.comadmin\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/flashbackinfectionsmap_610x333.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"575\" height=\"298\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I try to distance myself from the whole Mac versus PC debate. They are both extremely capable and wonderful machines, and I&#8217;ve spent enough time owning and working with both to know they each have their\u00a0strengths\u00a0and weaknesses. But you know that misconception people have about Macs being somehow immune to viruses and malware? That bothers me. Because when viruses do hit Macs on a large scale, those same people are totally unprepared.<\/p>\n<p>Today,\u00a0Dr. Web malware analyst Sorokin Ivan posted to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/hexminer\/status\/187623741273026562\">Twitter<\/a>\u00a0that a particular identity-stealing trojan had infected some 600,000 Macintosh computers in North America. Not that PCs are any safer from viruses, but many Mac users don&#8217;t take the necessary precautions to protect themselves as PC users do. The sooner we all understand that no platform is immune to malicious code, the safer your identity and our collective computing experiences will be.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, if you suspect your Mac has been infected, you can find more details <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/apple\/news\/2011\/10\/variation-on-mac-malware-disables-built-in-os-x-malware-protections.ars\">here<\/a> and information\u00a0on identification and removal <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/apple\/news\/2012\/04\/flashback-trojan-reportedly-controls-half-a-million-macs-and-counting.ars\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I try to distance myself from the whole Mac versus PC debate. They are both extremely capable and wonderful machines, and I&#8217;ve spent enough time owning and working with both to know they each have their\u00a0strengths\u00a0and weaknesses. But you know that misconception people have about Macs being somehow immune to viruses and malware? That bothers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1916,31],"tags":[2509,358,21,5231,44],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10077"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10077"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10077\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10090,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10077\/revisions\/10090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}