McAfee VirusScan for Intel powered Apple Mac

McAfee VirusScan for Intel powered Apple Mac

Apple might be highlighting the security aspects of the Mac OS X operating system over the Windows platform in their new ads but security company McAfee believes otherwise.

They have just launched a security product for the Intel powered Macintosh platform and have said in a statement that the OS X operating system is “just as vulnerable” as other operating systems.

However, they also admitted that Mac users were at “no significant risk” at the moment but cautioned that the growing popularity of this operating system would increase the number of viruses being developed for this platform.

Sal Viveros, a security expert at McAfee said in a statement: “Historically, Microsoft has been targeted because it has had dominant market share. As there are more Apple users (in the future), more threats will appear.”

Viveros added: At this point, there is very little research (into OS X vulnerabilities) and very few people trying to exploit the OS. You have a lot more people trying to find vulnerabilities in Windows at the moment, but we believe that as more people put the time into finding vulnerabilities in Apple OSes, they will become just as vulnerable as any other OS.”