About Dealing with Viruses, Mac Left Behind 10 Years from Windows

The news about trojan that attacks thousands of Mac computers this month invite a comment from Kaspersky CEO, Eugene Kaspersky. Eugene said that Mac has been left behind 10 years from Windows, in terms of operating system security.

"Apple will realize very quickly that they are currently experiencing the same problem with Microsoft 10 years ago," Kaspersky said while speaking at Info Security 2012 which took place in London, on Wednesday.

So far, most viruses are created by cyber criminals is intended for Windows-based computers.

Microsoft is busy all the time because of these virus attacks. Microsoft should improve and update their Windows when a security hole is found.

Python Virus Attack Mac and Windows

Mac users just shocked by the appearance of Flashback malware. Now, there are another malicious programs that are also designed to attack Windows. The virus is detected as Mal/20113544-A and Mal/JavaCmC-A.

According to security vendor Sophos, virus was made using python programming language and assaulted by exploiting loopholes that exist in Java. Whether it's also Windows version or Mac OS version.

If the virus succeed to infiltrate, its will download the files needed to launch the action. The downloaded file is different depending on operating system used by the victim.