Security firms intrigued Apple's Gatekeeper

Apple's gearing up to make their latest OS, Mountain Lion available for download via the Mac App Store. In the new OS, Apple's anti-Trojan program, Gatekeeper is of interest to security firms, particularly in the way that the program might hinder developers. According to security firm, F-Secure, the way that Gatekeeper prevents your Apple computer from getting a virus is it prohibits the download of any program that is not available from the Mac App Store or identified developers. Which means that if a developer wants to get his or her program on to your Apple computer, as geniune as their intentions may be, they will have to sign-up to be an Apple identified developer and cough up $99 (approx Rs.4,859) per year. Users can opt to download applications from "anywhere", but Gatekeeper will still issue you a warning, before you download the application.

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