Some of the earliest malware affected the first Macs in the mid-1980s. The first widespread virus was the Elk Cloner virus, which actually infected the Apple II, prior to any PC malware. There has almost always been malware for the Mac. Unfortunately, this old “wisdom” has never been true. Now, on a different topic, can you tell me why Safari is going to a Russian search engine instead of Google? And I keep getting pop-ups telling me to “clean your Mac from junk!” Mac threat landscape Wow, that’s so cool! It’s good to know we’re all safe. Even Apple said so, in their famous Get a Mac ads that aired a decade ago. Mac users have been told for years: Macs don’t get viruses.
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