Your Mac OS X can be infected with virus now

appleWell, I am sick of people eulogizing Apple's Mac OS X as the most impregnable OS that ever existed. They have all been straight over the fact that Mac OS X is virus-free. If any virus ever heard was all but a grapevine sprouting in MacRumors's  News Discussion. For all those overconfident nerds, I would have to say not having virus doesn't essentially mean the system is immune to viruses. I'd of course agree to the fact that you find virus for Mac once in a blue Moon. The first ever Mac OS X virus was found in February 2006, and last night SophosLabs revealed a message sent to it claims to be the SRC CoDE of new Macintosh Worm.
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PC worm may turn nasty on April Fool’s Day

LONDON - A security expert has cautioned that an Internet worm, called Conficker C, can strike at infected computers around the world on April 1.

Conficker C is a sophisticated piece of malicious computer software, or malware, that installs itself on a PC hard drive via specially written web pages and then conceals itself on a computer.

Graham Cluley, of the security specialist Sophos, has claimed that Conficker C is programmed "to hunt for new instructions on April 1″.

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5 Do Nots for You To Protect Yourself from Malware

Malware have become very prevalent in the internet these days. You do not know where they may come from, you don't know how, and to add to it you don't know how to prevent them from damaging your computer or deleting your important data. So how can you take measures so that you can prevent them from entering your territory. Where do you need to be careful? Let me give you 5 such places where you invite malwares without knowing anything.

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