OS X Exploits and Defense

Chapter 3. Malicious Macs: Malware and the Mac

Solutions in this chapter:

• Taxonomy of Malware

• Pre-OS X Mac Malware

• OS X and Malware

	Summary
	Solutions Fast Track
	Frequently Asked Questions

Introduction

I can already hear some readers murmuring, “What’s he talking about. There is no malware for the Mac!” Well, bear with me. In the early 1990s, a Macintosh (Mac) specialist I worked with looked at a position paper on viruses that I’d written and said, “I’m quite ...