Macs Gain Market Share, and Two New Trojans to Boot
July 28, 2008
Straight from the good news/bad news department, PC World and Slashdot: Apple Computer again cracked the top three in U.S. PC sales for the second quarter, according to surveys released Wednesday by both Gartner and IDC, which gives Apple an 8.5 percent or a 7.8 percent market share, according to the respective firms data.
On a related note, F-Secure is reporting that there are two new Mac OS X · trojans.
If you consider different computer Operating Systems to be part of a larger electronic ecosystem, then the more hosts of a given type there are, the more likely it is that a malware outbreak can be sustained and propagated. This is why virus writers currently and largely target Windows.
That could be subject to change if Macs continue to occupy a larger piece of the ecosystem.
