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Actually, that's not what herd immunity means. Herd immunity is based on the concept that, if a large enough subset of the population is protected from infectio
by manvsmachine 16y ago
Actually, that's not what herd immunity means. Herd immunity is based on the concept that, if a large enough subset of the population is protected from infection, then others in the population are inherently more protected due to lower transmission rates.
For herd immunity to apply in this case, we'd be assuming that OS X users are more likely to take proper measures to ensure that their system is not compromised (which may or may not be the case).
- teaspoon 16y agoIf Windows computers make up a majority of the market, then the transmission rate for viruses that target only OS X is low. Therefore, you could argue that computers collectively enjoy herd immunity versus OS X viruses, even if machines running OS X individually have weaker security than average.