"Just because you use a Macintosh, don't think you're any more secure than a Wintel user. A sharp increase in the number of flaws being discovered in Mac OS X suggests that the Apple operating system may soon be every bit as prone to malicious attacks as Windows systems, according to a report from the SANS Institute, a security training and research firm." This time no MSNBC, boys and girls, this is MacWorld.com. In the meantime, have fun with Apple's new commercials.
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Member since:2005-07-06
I have to agree with this one. I've had my Mac hooked up directly to the internet for months. No viruses, spyware, not even an errent popup. I've had my XP machined owned by blaster after just 2 hours connected to the internet.
Yeah, I'm sure you can make XP secure. You run Windows Update and a virus checker and a spyware scanner, etc, and you'll probably be fine. But frankly, I don't have the patience for that crap. I can't deal with the fact that VirusScan always seems to want to eat CPU for lunch when I'm trying to do a Matlab simulation. I can't deal with the fact that every time I log in to a machine in our computer lab, I have to wait a minute for the virus scanner and spyware scanner. I can't *stand* Windows update, which requires far more clicking than OS X's software update (both, of course, pale in comparison to apt-get, but I digress...)
The proof is in the pudding. My mom's new iMac has been purring along without a single hitch for almost two months That's way longer than her XP machine ever went without a problem.
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2005-08-29
I'll put the facts straight:
- How many (non-techie) of my friends have been affected by malware or virii on Windows ? 100%
- How many of the mac users I know (I know quite a few) had those problems? 0.0 as in 0 percent, 0 persons.
Might it come some distant day ? For sure. Has it come? Not yet. So you expect me to buy your crappy anti-virus software? Computer Virii are the new Axis of Evil. The only ones benefiting from the existence of evil are the ones who are dedicated to fighting it.
When I get a dual core mac I am definitely not using the second core to scan for hypothetic virii.