It is erroneous to imagine that a Mac operating system is now safe from all the Internet threats.

"Ever since 2005, there has been a noticeable increase in the number of vulnerabilities in the Mac Operating System which can be used to carry out an attack using the Internet," alleged Gun Suk Ling, managing executive for Kaspersky Lab, Southeast Asia.

Lately, protected content management solutions developer Kaspersky Lab declared the discharge of its most recent creation Kaspersky Anti-Virus for Mac OS. It protects the Mac OS from latest viruses, worms plus Trojan as well as comparable harms on other operating systems for example Windows as well as Linux.

It has been experiential that the preface of Mac OS X has made recognized on a wide scale the value of multi-platform computers, as well as thus formed a room for Mac in commercial as well as home networks.

The flipside of the coin, but, is that multi-platform aspect also completed the Mac, like some additional computers in a network, prone to malware attack.

"Just because they have not been polluted in the past does not mean they are secure at present," Gun said. "Such as, a Mac system might be compromised by Trojans or else key loggers without the user being alerted to the existence of the threat."

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To defend the Mac from viruses, the Kaspersky Anti-Virus has a worldwide anti-virus database of more than 20 million spiteful programs for a variety of platforms. There are also hourly updates to make sure users are confined from the very newest malicious programs that emerge each day.

The Kaspersky Anti-Virus also allows superior employ of system resources by raising the performance of user applications when the precedence of the anti-virus scanner reduces, particularly all through intense user activity. Kaspersky Lab alleged its anti-virus engine "dramatically increases system scanning speed mainly on dual- and quad-core CPU platforms."

To avoid the transmit of malware from Windows as well as Unix virtual systems to the work environment, a protecting response is added to the Kaspersky Anti-Virus for shared folders on virtual systems, which are also in advance in fame with both commercial as well as home users.

Secure content management solutions developer Kaspersky Lab preserves its H.Q. in Moscow. Away from five local divisions, as well as Southeast Asia, it has local offices around the world.