Linked List: July 24, 2011

Sunday, 24 July 2011

Mac Malware ‘Explosion’ Missing in Action ★

Richard Gaywood:

The appearance of the MacDefender trojan back in May provoked a lot of back-and-forth between various tech writers (including your humble correspondent). Was this a sign that the good times were ending? That the Mac platform would come under ever-fiercer attack from malware authors? That soon we’d all be running resource-sucking virus scanners and a-fearing every link we clicked?

Well, in a word: no. It wasn’t. And I’ve got some science to prove it.

I’m sure Ed Bott can explain.