"...But although Gartner's Reynolds warns Mac users to take precautions, he's not convinced Symantec's more dire predictions are on the mark. "Symantec's trying to drum up Mac security business," he said."Any major security vulnerabilities in Mac OS X are down the road," he said. "The OS is good at keeping out attacks, and Apple has a good patching system. What I would be concerned about is directed attacks or maybe spyware..."
... shows that the headline really doesn't match the content of the article.
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"... The traditional Windows-centric method of hackers to gain control is via a mass-mailed worm, but even with its increasing popularity, that's not a likely avenue of attack on the Mac."I don't expect to see a worm attack," Reynolds said. "The Macintosh still has far too low of a profile."
Even if, as Gartner estimates, the Mac has about a 3 percent market share, that means any Mac worm wouldn't spread 97 percent of the time. "A hybrid worm targeting both the Mac OS and Microsoft Windows could be developed, but such an attack would be difficult to orchestrate," he added.
But he doesn't say how a mass e-mailed worm would infect a Macintosh which does not allow executables to be installed without a password, or allow them to run from e-mail. For a mass emailed worm to work, it has to be installed and executed. How likely is that? Somewhere between zero and none.
"It only takes one exploited weakness to cause trouble," said Gartner analyst Martin Reynolds.
As opposed to the hundreds, if not thousands of exploited weaknesses in Windows?
Show me an actual exploited system, and I'd be concerned.(if I had a MAC that is)