Mysterious Mac Malware Has Infected Victims for Years
>the widespread belief that they are virus-free, Macs aren't immune from invasive and dangerous malware.<p>This is an area where it's really hard to extrapolate from my personal experience to the entire population, but is this really an accurate statement of many people's beliefs?<p>I think what people <i>actually</i> think is that the chances are much lower of encountering malware in the wild on a Mac.  In support of that, having an article this long on a <i>single</i> piece of malware that isn't particularly damaging, would indicate that it's not the normal state of affairs in Mac land.<p>I would similarly expect that the chances of drive-by malware on Linux are tiny, perhaps even less common than on a Mac, and thus it would be newsworthy if there were some widespread (in relative terms) Gnome malware, or similar.<p>It's one thing to think that it's uncommon, and another to think that it's impossible.