The appearance of the MacDefender trojan back in May provoked a lot of back-and-forth between various tech writers (including your humble correspondent). Was this a sign that the good times were ending? That the Mac platform would come under ever-fiercer attack from malware authors? That soon we\’d all be running resource-sucking virus scanners and a-fearing every link we clicked?
Well, in a word: no. It wasn\’t. And I\’ve got some science to prove it.
Mac malware \’explosion\’ missing in action