Apple has been known as the best in terms of evaluating apps before they reach the app store. This strict policy has allowed Apple's App store to remain untouched by malicious software for five years...until now.
Apple just removed an app known as "Find and Call" that asked users for their email address, cell number, then uploaded their phones contacts to a remote server that would send spam text messages.
Read more from the Huffington Post here:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/06/find-and-call-apple_n_1654076.html?ref=topbar
As an update, Apple has now done away with their marketing campaign that Mac's are safer than PC's.
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