Macs still represent only a small portion of the overall worldwide computer market, but their share has risen to roughly 7 percent in recent years and is expected to grow steadily.
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The same year Microsoft introduced Patch Tuesday, Macs represented less than 1.5 percent of desktop computers and less than 3.5 percent of laptop computers worldwide. Apple was a relatively minor player in the PC market, attracting little attention from cyber criminals who could make more money exploiting Windows. Beginning in 2003 Microsoft became infamous for " Patch Tuesday," a monthly release of security patches (sometimes dozens at a time) to fix problems in its operating system, along with Internet Explorer and other software. For nearly two decades, Microsoft's success has kept it in the crosshairs of cyber criminals by virtue of Windows's popularity and, at least early on, the company's inattentiveness to bolstering security as the operating system grew more complex. This is not the first time Apple has had to contend with a malware outbreak, but it is by far the largest and most public scar sullying the company's aura of invincibility.Īpple has been able to avoid such security problems in the past for a number of reasons. Written as a Trojan horse program, Flashback has infected hundreds of thousands of Macs to date, allowing cyber criminals to steal information from those computers and turn many of them into virtual zombies that can be manipulated to attack other computers. The emergence of a group of malicious software (malware) programs in recent months- collectively known as Flashback or Flashfake-that specifically target Macs and their OS X operating system now has Apple in the unfamiliar position of being on the defensive. Apple has long enjoyed the reputation of making a computing platform that provides security protection that is superior to its peers-in a word, Microsoft.
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