Linked by Bill Leeper on Tue 7th Feb 2006 23:55 UTC
Features, Office "Assuming that 'because it's a Mac, it's safe' is no longer wise" is probably one of this book's most important themes. It has been my experience that too many Mac users "know" that OS X is secure and therefore they have nothing to worry about. This book shows just how wrong that attitude is.
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RE[2]: Attitudes
by rockwell on Wed 8th Feb 2006 18:07 UTC in reply to "RE: Attitudes"
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// Out of the box a Mac is much more secure than a Windows machine.//

That's debateable. Yesterday, I setup a new Dell Dimension. After maybe 10 minutes of running "Windows Update," the system was completely patched.

Two months ago, I setup a new Mac Mini ... took about the same amount of time, to run Software Update so that everything was patched.

And ... for the life of me ... I've setup probably 50 PC's in the last three years, and I've *never* experienced the "you-will-be-hacked-within-three-minutes-of-going-online" crap.

I'm starting to wonder how much of that is even true. Has anyone else experienced this? Just wondering.

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