18 months ago, Symantec, makers of the popular program suite Norton Utilities, had a scary prediction for Mac users. Symantec claimed that the Mac OS was ?increasingly becoming a target for the malicious activity that is more commonly associated with Microsoft.? That?s quite an ominous prediction from a company that claims to be the ?global leader in information security? on their website.

A lot of people look to companies like Symantec for information and guidance and I?m sure many Mac users purchased Symantec anti spyware and virus protection software based on this prediction.
So during the last 18 months how much ?malicious activity? was targeted towards the Mac OS? Ummm?? basically none. This week Symantec admitted that their prediction last year about increasing Mac-targeted spyware was just plain wrong. Oops.

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Filed under: Apple - @ October 2, 2006 10:50 pm