However, adware and PUPs can actually be far more invasive and dangerous on the Mac than “real” malware.
“Macs don’t get viruses” is a statement that is still overwhelmingly true. This has led some in the Mac community to dismiss these findings as unimportant, even leading one Mac blogger to write: The remaining 99+ percent of Mac threats are “just” adware and potentially unwanted programs (PUPs). That figure is less than 1 percent for Macs.įurther, Mac malware is rather unsophisticated overall. Most notably, more traditional forms of malware, such as ransomware, spyware, and backdoors account for over 27 percent of all Windows threats.
As the data revealed in our State of Malware report showed, Mac threats are on the rise, but they are not the same type of threats experienced by Windows users.
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