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In recent months, Mac users have become familiar with the Flashback virus, a malware program that has infected more than 600,000 Macs worldwide about 1 percent of all Macs, according to an article on eWeek.com.

Apple quickly came under fire for failing to foresee a set of flaws in Java that failed to detect malicious code.

And, Macs have risen to a vital plateau they now account for more than 5 percent of the market, which, according to the U.K.-based tech website IT Pro, is the threshold that makes the development of viruses, worms and Trojans worthy to scammers.

And though the number of reported Flashback infections has sharply dropped, the fact is, Mac systems are vulnerable to attack and will continue to be so.

Apple has taken the threat seriously and implemented new security features designed to ward off infectious software.

And the company has told its customers to keep its anti-virus software up to date.

As far back as 2005, Toms Hardware reported that a major Mac virus was inevitable.

A year later, the first breakout of OSXLeap-A, a worm written specifically for Mac OS X, hit the scene.

By the end of 2008 Apple confirms, You Need Anti-Virus For Your Mac.

Apple says the following in a technical note: Apple encourages the widespread use of multiple antivirus utilities so that virus programmers have more than one application to circumvent, thus making the whole virus writing process more difficult.

According to IT Pro, approximately 1 in 5 Macs harbor some kind of Windows Trojan and as many as 1 in 36 Macs harbor Mac OS X-specific malware infections.

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