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After years of boasting about the Mac’s near invincibility, Apple is now advising its customers to install security software on their computers.

Apple – which has continually played on Windows’ vulnerability to viruses in its advertising campaigns – issued the advice in a low-key message on its support forums.

“Apple encourages the widespread use of multiple antivirus utilities so that virus programmers have more than one application to circumvent, thus making the whole virus writing process more difficult,” the the support message reads.

As the Apple platform gets more popular, more ‘mainstream’, we need to start looking at the system configuration, at applying updates and using the relevant tools to prevent exploits and viruses. Owners will need to establish their risk against the cost of doing so.

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