An anonymous AppleCare support representative spoke to ZDNet's Ed Bott over the weekend, telling the reporter that complaints about malware infections on the Mac increased significantly in the first half of May. "This last week over 50% of our calls have been about [malware]," said the AppleCare staffer. "In two days last week I personally took 60 calls that referred to Mac Defender."
Earlier this month, a new series of malicious software packages with names like "Mac Defender," "Mac Security," and "Mac Protector" began to assault Apple's computing platform. Websites would alert users their Macs were infected a
