Antivirus Software for Mac
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Antivirus Software for Mac
0 3
Millions of Macs sold / year
6 9
12
15
Timeline History of Mac Viruses
1987 nVIR
100 80 60
Norway
Ecuador
20 0
Sources :
http://www.systemshootouts.org/mac_sales.html http://bullcross.blogspot.com/2010/06/2010-apples-635-billion-revenue-year_25.html http://www.google.com/insights/search/#q=mac%20antivirus&cmpt=q http://www.13idol.com/mac/mac-facts.html http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2010/11/24/apple-mac-malware-short-history/
This infographic is provided by
MacKeeper
http://mackeeper.zeobit.com
Mexico
France
Italy
40
United States
Switzerland
Puerto Rico
Hong Kong
Costa Rica
Singapore
Denmark
1998
virus began to infect Macs, spreading mainly by oppy disk.
viruses emerged which showed the message"Dukakis for President" before self-destructing
1988 HyperCard
1999
1990 MDEF virus
2000
2001
2002
(aka Gar eld) emerged, infecting application and system les on the Mac.
the rst ever Word macro virus, which infected Microsoft O ce onMacs and PCs.
1995 Concept
1996 Laroux
the rst Excel virus, was released which attacked users of Excel 98
1998 Sevendust
2003
(a.k.a 666) , &
infected applications on Apple Mac computers.
AutoStart 9805
2004 Amphimix
2004
written by Hackers, disguised as an MP3 music le on an Apple Mac.
script worm attempted to disable Mac OS X security.
2004 Renepo
2005 2006 2007
2007 BadBunny
2006 Inqtana worm, Proof-of-concept & Macarena viruses soon followed.
spreaded via iChat on Mac OS X .
2006 Leap-A,
2008 2009 2010
Worldwide Web Search Interest for Mac Antivirus (%)
20 40 60 80 100
worm displayed an indecent JPEG image of a man wearing a rabbit costume.
A Trojan horse was rst nancial malware for Mac.
2007 OSX/RSPlug
2008 Troj/RKOSX
assisted hackers to access and control overApple Mac computer
2008
a piece of Mac scareware claimed to nd privacy issues on the user's precious computer.
MacSweeper & Imunizator,
2004
PASSWORD ********
A Trojan horse was discovered that could steal passwords from Mac OS X users
2008 OSX/Hovdy
2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011
2009 OSX/iWorks
A Trojan horse was distributed by hackers via BitTorrent.
2009
A new variant of the Trojan was distributed in a pirated version of
Adobe Photoshop CS4 2010
OSX/Pinhead Trojan
( a.k.a. HellRTS ) emerged which allowed hackers to gain remote control over your treasured iMac or MacBook.
a cross-platform worm appeared, which used a Java applet to target Mac OS X, Windows and Linux.
2010 Boonana
A new Mac is sold every 9 seconds
of all the personal computers in use today are Macs
20%
More than 57% of Web sites that use video use Apple's
QuickTime to deliver it
Regional Web Search Volume Index for Mac Antivirus
0 3
Millions of Macs sold / year
6 9
12
15
Timeline History of Mac Viruses
1987 nVIR
100 80 60
Norway
Ecuador
20 0
Sources :
http://www.systemshootouts.org/mac_sales.html http://bullcross.blogspot.com/2010/06/2010-apples-635-billion-revenue-year_25.html http://www.google.com/insights/search/#q=mac%20antivirus&cmpt=q http://www.13idol.com/mac/mac-facts.html http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2010/11/24/apple-mac-malware-short-history/
This infographic is provided by
MacKeeper
http://mackeeper.zeobit.com
Mexico
France
Italy
40
United States
Switzerland
Puerto Rico
Hong Kong
Costa Rica
Singapore
Denmark
1998
virus began to infect Macs, spreading mainly by oppy disk.
viruses emerged which showed the message"Dukakis for President" before self-destructing
1988 HyperCard
1999
1990 MDEF virus
2000
2001
2002
(aka Gar eld) emerged, infecting application and system les on the Mac.
the rst ever Word macro virus, which infected Microsoft O ce onMacs and PCs.
1995 Concept
1996 Laroux
the rst Excel virus, was released which attacked users of Excel 98
1998 Sevendust
2003
(a.k.a 666) , &
infected applications on Apple Mac computers.
AutoStart 9805
2004 Amphimix
2004
written by Hackers, disguised as an MP3 music le on an Apple Mac.
script worm attempted to disable Mac OS X security.
2004 Renepo
2005 2006 2007
2007 BadBunny
2006 Inqtana worm, Proof-of-concept & Macarena viruses soon followed.
spreaded via iChat on Mac OS X .
2006 Leap-A,
2008 2009 2010
Worldwide Web Search Interest for Mac Antivirus (%)
20 40 60 80 100
worm displayed an indecent JPEG image of a man wearing a rabbit costume.
A Trojan horse was rst nancial malware for Mac.
2007 OSX/RSPlug
2008 Troj/RKOSX
assisted hackers to access and control overApple Mac computer
2008
a piece of Mac scareware claimed to nd privacy issues on the user's precious computer.
MacSweeper & Imunizator,
2004
PASSWORD ********
A Trojan horse was discovered that could steal passwords from Mac OS X users
2008 OSX/Hovdy
2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011
2009 OSX/iWorks
A Trojan horse was distributed by hackers via BitTorrent.
2009
A new variant of the Trojan was distributed in a pirated version of
Adobe Photoshop CS4 2010
OSX/Pinhead Trojan
( a.k.a. HellRTS ) emerged which allowed hackers to gain remote control over your treasured iMac or MacBook.
a cross-platform worm appeared, which used a Java applet to target Mac OS X, Windows and Linux.
2010 Boonana
A new Mac is sold every 9 seconds
of all the personal computers in use today are Macs
20%
More than 57% of Web sites that use video use Apple's
QuickTime to deliver it
Regional Web Search Volume Index for Mac Antivirus
