Planning to purchase a Mac pro- Thunderbolt vulnerability

Asked By Tracy R Taylor 0 points N/A Posted on - 01/04/2015

Hi all, 

I am planning to invest in a mac. Having been on windows for most of my life, it will be quite daunting to adapt to the new OS. In terms of viruses, i heard that there are no viruses known to have infested the mac OS. Is that still true? But can anyone explain to me the thunderbolt vulnerability. How can it be remedied? 

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Answered By Hamthler itali 0 points N/A #193820

Planning to purchase a Mac pro- Thunderbolt vulnerability

HELLO

 

It's not right that no viruses known to have infested the MAC OS. In every five mac computer one mac is infested with viruses according to a report.

 

According to sophos report the mac computers have downloaded the anti virus and they found that 20% of  mac computers carrying windows malware. 

Malware can goes in mac through USB, Email attachment, and unnecessary download .

 

 

 

Thunderbolt vulnerability:

 

Thunderbolt ROM that checks the apples EFI firmware update. It can be allows to attackers to machine with physical access. They can be write un trusted code in SPI flash ROM on motherboard. That can be create new class of firmware in mac system.

 

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