Apple’s Mac market share increased over a percentage point in the last year alone, according to Gartner and IDC. What our own SteveJack wrote back in March works well today, “People are switching to Mac from Windows. Otherwise, you are wasting your money (please see related articles below). For Jobs’ sake, how the heck can they sell a PowerPC application running under Rosetta emulation as supporting Intel-based Macs with a straight face? Do you like being sold something via fear tactics and nonsense sentences? If you want to be a good “network citizen” and keep Windows viruses off your Mac, so they don’t spread to Windows PCs, that’s one thing. MacDailyNews Take: If you visit to buy Mac OS X virus protection after reading this press release, please also visit and. McAfee VirusScan for Mactel is now available worldwide through McAfee, Inc. The solution is centrally managed by McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator 3.5 and 3.6 (ePO), enabling businesses to manage all of their McAfee security solutions from one central interface, which helps them save time and money, as well as ensure a consistent security policy across all computers. McAfee VirusScan for Mactel utilizes the award-winning McAfee scan engine for complete, on-access virus protection for Macintosh systems, stopping virus and malicious code threats, including hidden threats buried in archives and other compressed file types. With McAfee VirusScan for Mactel, administrators can deploy systems on the new Mac Intel platform with the assurance that they are steps ahead of future security threats.” “As more companies deploy Mac systems running on the Intel platform in mixed environments, the risk of infection will most likely increase. “The availability of Mac exploit code on the Internet makes it an open target for the same types of malware currently plaguing the Windows world,” said Eric Winsborrow, vice president of product marketing, McAfee, Inc. McAfee VirusScan for Mactel is designed to detect, block and clean infected emails and attachments, keeping systems free from these threats. While the Mac OS X operating system still remains safer than Windows-based platforms, the rapid growth in critical vulnerabilities has forged the need for a more proactive approach to keep systems secure, especially in heterogeneous work environments.
McAfee VirusScan for Mactel 8.0 runs under Apple’s Rosetta emulator to help protect Apple computer users from Macintosh and Windows-based viruses, Trojans and other malicious threats.Īccording to McAfee Avert Labs, Macintosh platform vulnerabilities have increased more than 228 percent since 2003 due to the rising popularity of Apple’s consumer products, notably the iPod media devices and iTunes media services. PRESS RELEASE: McAfee, Inc., the global leader in Intrusion Prevention and Security Risk Management, today announced anti-virus support for Intel-based Apple computers.
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