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Experts say Mac showing more security holes

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Leap.A is a new Trojan-style virus circulating for the Apple Macintosh OS X platform. Claims about it being the "first" Macintosh virus are bogus, but it's likely to be the first of many in a new trend, security experts say. Still, given OS X's roots in the Unix-based FreeBSD operating system, it is still far more secure than any version of Windows.

For more on the Mac:
- read this AP article
- read this Register article

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