Macs don’t get malware. That was the old adage. However, over recent years, that has proven to be increasingly inaccurate, if it was ever true in the first place. There are now all manner of software nasties designed to attack Macs and other Apple devices.
Paul Ducklin, principal research scientist at Sophos, told us that decades ago, Macs and other minority platforms didn’t get viruses “probably because people who wrote them weren’t that interested, or there weren’t that many people interested. But it kind of became almost like this touchstone, that it’s obviously some magic smoke that got baked into my operating system of choice. ‘I chose a Mac that’s a minority system. I haven’t seen any viruses, my Windows and my DOS chums
