The malware attacks on Macs have begun, although they are nowhere as dangerous as their Windows counterparts. It is only a matter of time, that the frequency of these attacks increase to that against Windows.

"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

"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."

Features:

• A global anti-virus database of over 20 million malicious programs for a range of platforms.

• Hourly updates to ensure that users protected against these malicious programs which appear on a day to day basis.

• Kaspersky anti-virus engine makes use of dual and quad core processors to dramatically increase scanning speed.

• It enables better use of system resources by increasing the performance of user applications when the priority of the anti-virus decreases.

• It has an automatic mode where it wont bother the user with unnecessary requests, enabling the anti-virus program to take decisions automatically.

• Fast and non-intrusive with only 1% CPU impact on your Mac performance

• It’s user-friendly interface is easy to understand for both novice and advanced users. Familiar Mac-style appearance and operation

• Kaspersky anti-virus is compatible from Mac OS version 10.4.11.

It seems like the the days of the popular opinion that Macs are safe from virus and Trojan attacks are getting over. Even otherwise that would be wrong to assume that any operating system is ideally safe from attacks from malicious programs. Macs have good security features to prevent malicious code from damaging the OS but even Macs are not bulletproof.

Macs are gaining popularity and with the user base increasing they will certainly be more prone to attacks in the near future. Therefore it would be wise to keep your operating systems safe from any possible threat.

[Via:Kaspersky]

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