So there are widely published reports this week claiming that Apple has teamed up with Kaspersky Labs, publisher of antivirus software,  to receive advice on bolstering OS X security. How do we know that? Because Kaspersky’s chief technology officer, Nikolai Grebennikov, said so, according to an interview published in Computing. Since we’re talking about a […]

There’s a report this week that Microsoft’s security researchers have discovered malware that, curiously, might impact Mac users of Office. I say might, because the vulnerability was supposedly fixed back in 2009 by patching Office 2008 and Office 2004. If they weren’t patched, the exploit could potentially impact users of Mac OS versions prior to […]

Apple’s marketing people might have put themselves on a shaky footing when they downplayed the susceptibility of OS X to malware in those Mac versus PC ads. While pointing to over 120,000 viruses on the Windows platform, the ads used the phrase (to quote approximately), “but not on Macs.” But that statement was strategically weasel-worded. It […]

Back in the early days, Mac users confronted a moderate level of malware infections. I remember one occasion when I visited a local software store — back in Edison, New Jersey — and bought a screen saver from a reputable publisher. The floppy was infected, however. I didn’t have anti-virus software at hand, and had […]