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Many mac owners I know repeatedly tell me that they are impervious to viruses. This belief is quite widespread.
by codexon 17y ago
Many mac owners I know repeatedly tell me that they are impervious to viruses. This belief is quite widespread.
- yardie 17y agoIn my office we have email virus scanners, network virus scanners, and virus scanners on all the PCs and servers. You know what they are all looking for? Windows viruses. I'm probably more advanced than most Mac users, I don't enter my password at the request of every prompt and I read the file manifest for each installer. Mac owners are know they are not impervious. Most wouldn't know what to do if their Mac was infected with a virus. But they know there are far juicier targets than OSX. A virus hasn't been built yet to take a Mac down. What you have is a bunch of hypothetical lab scenarios of how it could be done, and 0 real world data. Companies are paying crackers with $2000 Macbook Pros while real money is being made ($millions) writing PC viruses. OSX doesn't need to be more secure than Windows 7 (it should be the goal though). It just needs to be more secure than 90% of the PCs out there running XP.