Before, Apple's pride was not having any antivirus software in its computers. It has been that way for years since they claimed that Apple computers are hack-free. But the tide has changed. Starting this month Apple is recommending to use antivirus tools to protect Mac systems from attacks. Qouting Apple, "Apple encourages the widespread use of multiple anti-virus utilities so that virus programmers have more than one application to circumvent, thus making the whole virus writing process more difficult."

With the continuous evolution of the world wide web, more and more hackers are utilizing the web for attacks and applications are being created to infect PCs irregardless of the operating system that is being used.

Intego VirusBarrier, McAfee VirusScan for Mac and Symantec Norton Anti-Virus 11 for Macintosh are some possible security options that Apple is suggesting.