Mac users may be happy to know that they will now no longer have to resort to using 3rd party antivirus solutions to protect their Mac from the increasing onslaught of malware, in recent times.
There are reports about an interesting security feature, in Snow Leopard, the new version of Mac OS X due for release this Friday.
According to reports, Snow Leopard contains an anti-malware feature.
One wonders just how serious Apple thinks the malware threat is, especially since their latest Get a Mac ads highlight the fact that PCs running Windows suffer from viruses… 
As the market share of any OS starts to increase, one can expect malware writers to start targetting it.
Windows has had a very large percentage of the OS market share, and thus it made sense for malware writers to target Windows only. But now that Mac share is said to be around 10%, one can expect more Mac malware attacks, as is being seen in the recent past.
There are many antivirus solutions for Mac on offer nowadays. ClamXav, Virex, iAntiVirus, Intego VirusBarrier, McAfee VirusScan for Mac, MacScan, Norton Internet Security 3.0 for Macintosh, etc are some of the better known Mac anti-virus solutions a Mac user may want to check out.
