Malicious application to renew the debate about protection in both Windows and Mac

A recent Trojan horse aimed at Mac Defender malicious devices that are running Mac, this application has worked to spread the pernicious sense of danger to the users, but more importantly, it re-open the debate about the extent of security enjoyed by the Mac versus Windows systems.

The Mac Defender screen showing a surprise to the user telling him that his machine suffered a virus and that he install a antivirus software, and if the user agrees to install the software, will discover that it is not only a malicious program will download the many pornographic sites on the device at successive periods.

He spoke of 200 users of Mac systems across the Community Apple different from infection with the virus, while the doubled telephone calls on the status of AppleCare about 4 or 5 times, which made asking the question controversial on that Mac systems Okthera secure than Windows systems seems logical now.

Although the numbers confirm that the Mac systems less actually in infection rates, but that is blamed for a lot of experts, such as "Ed bot", a journalist at the site ZDNet, the success of Windows in terms of proliferation, making it the most exposed to attacks by pirates and scammers, and Mac systems and other devices for Apple such as the iPhone was to penetrate easily in the international competitions for hackers such as Pwn2Own over the past years, as different from them security researcher famous "Charlie Miller", which confirms that the Windows systems already suffering from a larger number of gaps and Mac systems have been developed professionally and greater accuracy, pointing out that the 200 complaints last HIV Mac Defender does not mean anything among millions of users of Mac systems, as it does not mean the need to purchase anti-virus software, but refers to the need to know the users are more on the malicious applications and how to deal with it.