Although it is true that nowadays macOS is more vulnerable to adware or malware attacks due to the fact that more users use this OS, the truth is that having a Mac is always a sign of security and reliability in this sense. Now a recent study by Malwarebytes warns that there is significant growth in malware in this last quarter of the year, specifically speak of an increase of 60% compared to previous months.
But there is no need to be alarmed by this far from it, it is evident that the more users use macOS, the more possibilities malware or adware have to access our computers, but this It is mainly due to the lack of knowledge of the user himself.
I explain. A person who comes back to the Mac world is possible that when accessing a "not entirely secure" website to download such a thing you could fall into the trap of these supposed infections and when you see a pop-up window in macOS that tells you with "all kinds of signals, lights and others" that your Mac is infected, you can fall into the trap and click on " accept, accept, accept ... »actually allowing malware or mainly adware to access your computer.
What the study tells us Malwarebytes and what they share on AppleInsider it is precisely that access to unsafe sites or applications that are supposed to disinfect your Mac, I don't know which virus makes this type of infection increase. Actually, in most cases, common sense is the only thing necessary to avoid this type of attack, yes, it is true that in some of these malware they access advanced users' computers but in most cases it is due to the own ignorance of the user than due to a failure in the system.
Logically macOS has vulnerabilities Like all OS, we cannot say that ours is protected against all existing threats, but as with Windows, Linux, etc., the important thing is to know where we go to navigate and above all what and from where we download apps on our computer, tools, programs, etc. Normally these types of infections come from these sites and the ingenuity of the attackers using names similar to programs that are totally interesting for our team make a triumphant entrance causing problems. Therefore, we must always be aware of the places we enter and the sites from which we download content on the network.
