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Apple Quietly Drops Claims that Macs Don’t Get Viruses

Posted by Warner Todd Huston on Jul 9, 2012 at 11:40 AM

Hackers were far more likely to go after Windows-based systems than Mac simply because hardly anyone had a Mac until recently

As a Mac user since the early ‘90s, I’ve always laughed at Windows users so constantly beset by viruses that destroy their computers. My computer, I would tell them, is safe from that nonsense. That Macs don’t get viruses has been such a common assumption that even Apple said so on its website. But now Apple has quietly dropped that boastful claim after hundreds of thousands of computers were hijacked last April by a Trojan virus.

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