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On 28th August, the latest update for MaxOS X was released - Snow Leopard. Version 10.6 differs in one very telling way from previous versions - for the first time in Apple's long history, the company's implemented an antivirus scanner
As an independant consultancy, we are are continually coming across Mac users who believe the TV commercial where the "Mac" character boasts to the "PC" character that they do not get viruses! We always beleived that this would simply be like waving a red flag to a bull for virus programmers, and the above article proves it! I shall be printing off copies of this and showing it to our clients who have both PC and Mac platforms and who falsely beleive they are immune to malware attack!
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