The noise about Mac security has died down, but not the need for solid antivirus — set it up to run, update and forget it about. And, now, the best (IMHO) free AV app, ClamXav, is more OS X Mountain Lion …

A growing number of Mac users have developed a twitch. Though we certainly don’t have the problems inherent to Windows, nowhere near that level anxiety, malware is increasingly a problem and the OSX/Crisis trojan is just latest malevolent cloud to …

Apple has rolled a rather hefty OS X Mountain Lion security patch, tipping the scales at an impressive 1.16GB and tagged with the words, “Install this update as soon as possible.” And, there’s a reason for the tonnage as this …

Has there been a FlashBack trojan resurgence? Apple has issued fresh Java updates for both OS X Lion and Snow Leopard, covering a long list of Java-flavored security issues including the nasty “arbitrary code execution” kind.
However, MacFixIt reports that Apple’s …

Viruses on the Mac — self replicating and spreading malware — are nonexistent, though there seems to be no shortage of trojans, such as the infamous FlashBack Trojan which infected hundreds of thousands of Macs. Whether the current threat is …

Our favorite fruit company has done the right thing. Although it’s been over a year since Apple last updated Leopard security and more than two-and-a-half years since the last OS X 10.5 update was released, here we have fresh patches …

Although Apple has gotten grief for being slow to issue patches for security vulnerabilities, the biggest problem facing users is their near steadfast refusal to install the available updates. With Safari 5.1.7, Apple’s taking a proactive approach by disabling old …

Our friends in Redmond have been scrambling to patch a series of security and bug issues. This time around Microsoft is hoping to wrangle a memory issue that can result in malicious code running on your Mac, which most definitely …

Sweating the small stuff is what this Apple mobile operating system update is all about or, “ah-boot,” as my hoser friends say. Actually, I don’t have any friends on the more polite and culturally adept side of Lake Erie.
However, if …

It is one thing for Apple to allow weeks to pass before issuing a patch for the BackDoor FlashBack trojan and quite another for the great majority of Mac users not to install it, which is apparently the current state …