Hackers hitting Macs with virus: industry experts

Now that is indeed a strange and unexpected headline to see this morning! This is the first time I have ever noticed anything like this on Macs in the news. I feel vulnerable on my MacBook, having no anti-virus, no malware detection, and no malware cleaners. I need to catch up on what is available out there, if anything.

This comes from Yahoo News, but is covered all over.

"The computer security industry buzzed Thursday with warnings that more than a half-million Macintosh computers may have been infected with a virus targeting Apple machines.

Flashback Trojan malware tailored to slip past "Mac" defenses is a variation on viruses typically aimed at personal computers (PCs) powered by Microsoft's Windows operating systems.

The infections, spotted "in the wild" by Finland-based computer security firm F-Secure and then quantified by Russian anti-virus program vendor Dr. Web, come as hackers increasingly take aim at Apple computers.

"All the stuff the bad guys have learned for doing attacks in the PC world is now starting to transition to the Mac world," McAfee Labs director of threat intelligence Dave Marcus told AFP."

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