Poke around the net for a while searching for information on what’s really going on with malware (viruses, trojan horses, worms, and other generally nasty software) for the Mac, and you’ll get fed a load of flame wars, half-answers, and self-serving “sky is falling” virus alerts from software vendors.

But the problem is, there are very few places to get the whole scoop on malware for the Mac. However, I’ve been somewhat of an operating system junkie for the past 15 years, and I thought I’d take a stab at clearing the air.

Before I get into things, I should say that I’ve been using Macs for a while now, but spent most of the 10+ years before that quite enamored with Windows and DOS as well. And it’s been quite a while (knock on wood) since I’ve encountered any malware on either platform.

So, here’s the scoop on malware on the Mac:

01 Nothing is completely virus-proof

As long as a computer has some sort of connection to the outside world, and a living, breathing human wrote some of the code it uses, there’s a

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