InformationWeek reports a new release from Symantec -- a full-version update to its Norton AntiVirus suite for Mac OS X (also called Leopard). This edition includes a "Vulnerability Protection" feature which is designed to protect against infections from applications connected to the Internet. Symantec explained the importance of such a feature due to these attacks which occur at the Web application layer and which constitute 78% of exploit attempts.
According to Symantec, the software will deal with worms and viruses that affect only PC users from Mac e-mail in order to prevent the user from accidentally passing infected files on. His creators designed it not to cause a lengthy startup time and to carry out updates in the background with an increased speed, without affecting other computing activities.
Since virus developers have not kept themselves busy with Macs, security applications were never what you would call top priority for Apple's computers.
However, things may soon change and that not to the disappointment of some security companies. Along with its newly found popularity through its increasing share of the PC market, the wide success of iPhone and of iTunes, Apple also won the malware writers’ attention.
It doesn’t take a genius to figure out that Apple is going to be quite busy this year fixing a whole lot more security flaws than in the previous years. As InformationWeek informs us, in 2007 up to now, it has released 32 security-related updates, compared to 22 in 2006 and 23 a year before.
Symantec pointed out through Mike Romo, a product manager for the Mac team that due to the constantly rapid changes within the computers world, Mac users will find themselves in need of a reliable security protection especially that owing to Apple's Boot Camp and virtualization software from Parallels and VMware, they are expected from now on to be running multiple operating systems.
Norton AntiVirus 11 for Mac is somehow announcing that free from care days for Mac users are almost near their end.
