We often hear an all too common expression "I have an apple.. ergo, I am immune to viruses"
It often makes me want to grab their face and slap them a few times in the hope of waking them up a little.
I am sorry to burst your bubble, but an apple is just another computer. It runs the same way as a PC. It has a processor, memory, hard drives, graphics chips.. it's the same. It has an operating system which is one huge program that allows other programs to run on it.
And there, my friends, is the whole issue that tends to be ignored.
Anything can be hacked today. Anything. We've heard of big companies being attacked by hackers and they've been running their own bespoke operating systems. Corporations are starting to get more concerned because of cyber terrorists that could essentially hack into pretty much anything that affects our day to day living.
So why don't Apples get viruses? *slap* They do. The fact is that they are equally as vulnerable as a Windows or Linux machine in getting a virus. The reason they don't get as many is because, like it or not, Microsoft still have about a 90% hold on the market. And thus because of this, hackers who want to have the biggest impact will have a go at the biggest market share.
Sadly, because Apples are becoming more and more popular, hackers are turning their attention toward these devices and writing some nasty code. Soon, there will be more viruses spreading around.
However, now is the time to wake up and realise that your system is not impervious to being hacked. All the time you have your head buried in the sand, your system could be getting data taken off it, or information ruined.
Get yourself protected. Do it now. Have a firewall set up on your router and have a highly rated anti virus running.
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