Many people like to buy Mac not just because Mac is easy to be operating and it’s colorful enough, at the same time, many users believe that the Mac system can help users stop from virus attack. However, the thing has changed.

A super hacker named Charlie Miller has said publicly that the Mac OS X system is not better than Windows in security. (If you both have a PC and Mac, you are able to seamlessly run both Windows and Mac OS X applications side-by-side without rebooting with Parallels Desktop for Mac). Previously, due to the smaller share of the Mac, so it did not arouse the attention of hackers.

The first quarter of 2011, Apple Mac computers made good sales in the U.S. market, a year-on-year growth of 9.6%. IDC data show that, overall, the Apple Mac computers occupy a 8.5% share of the U.S. PC market is expected to sold 1,375,000 units. The growth rate of 9.6% Apple beyond the growth of the vast majority of PC brands. Apple's market share soared bound to attract the attention of hackers.

Have a certain market share only a platform to attack it will become profitable. According to the survey, a Russian hacker organization called "Partnerka" profit by spreading malicious software hundreds of thousands of dollars, and its branches "codec-partnerka" is mainly for Mac users.

With the Mac platform used by more and more users, for security threats also rising rapidly. The Mac platform is likely to become the second-largest security focus after following the Windows platform.

Hackers implanted virus viruses to infecting a user's computer, taking advantage of most human weakness, not just rely on hardware vulnerabilities. According to the report of the IE Web browser returns per download 14 software, there is a malicious program.

Network security company McAfee chief researcher Dave Marcus said, "In the past week have been found fake anti-virus software continuously coming out, these fake antivirus malware will be downloaded when the user clicks on search results connected." Or when the user clicks be included in the email the microblogging toxic links such virus will spread.
Network security firm Sophos senior security adviser Chester Wisniewski said, "This is the first time we see the malware appears more concentrated.

For example, recently the latest Mac platform a rogue software named "MACDefender. It generally through black hat search engine optimization, user search results, enticing a user to jump out of the window, click Install. After installation, you will require the user to pay for. If the rogue software bundled with a Trojan virus, then the user download this rogue software, also put the Trojan virus "into the computer system.

It is reported that there is a Windows program called "Weyland-Yutani BOT" in the Apple Mac operating system platform Firefox browser page injection "and" Form steal. Web injected trusted website to add a new scripting language, form the steal theft unsuspecting user input passwords and credit card account.

The independent Mac computer security experts believe that, from the current level of risk, and Apple's Mac OS X operating system is already built sufficient safety mechanisms to protect the user. Nevertheless, users download a malicious program, and become more serious.

For Apple, it is imperative to find a well-known anti-virus vendors to work with, because Apple may solve the problem only through the depth of cooperation. Such as cooperation with the world's leading anti-virus firm Kaspersky that last year against Apple introduced the Apple version of anti-virus software, it integrates the latest Kaspersky anti-virus engine, in the case of the automatic update anti-virus data, enough to protect Mac system away from the Trojans and viruses. In any case, it can automatically detect and remove viruses, comprehensive scanning of all documents in the case without manual intervention, and to provide users with the appropriate report.

Moreover, the Mac system, it also provides a cool, intuitive Mac-style interface; supports both Mac OS 10.4.11 and above. Kaspersky's support, Apple users will have access to safe, rest assured that the use of the environment, it is not only the user's blessing and help, for Apple, but also to solve a serious obstacle to the development process.

A lot of discussion about the security of Mac have been taken before, it has been pointed out that the security of the Mac users are suffering from the growing threat. In fact, viruses, Trojan horses, are not the main reason that Mac users easily be attacked. Mac users usually too believe that the security of the system itself, and rarely take more security precautions to Windows users as Mac, which makes the "streaking" very vulnerable.

We should strengthen the sense of security of Mac without delay. For Mac users, they should install a security software on their computers. If you have suffered the data loss on your Mac, you can try free data recovery for Mac. But if they don’t work, you should use the paid and more professional data recovery software for preventing you from losing the data further.