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Selection bias? Your conclusion that windows is a malware ghetto based on your experience at the geek squad is like a Doctor saying 'everyone is sick, because a

• powrtoch 15y ago
  I think the meaning was that Windows is a malware ghetto compared to Mac. More akin to a Doctor noticing that 95% of his patients are blondes and declaring that blondes tend to get sick more. The significance of this is offset by the base rate though: unlike Windows PCs, blondes don't constitute 90% of the sample group.
• learc83 15y ago
  Definitely a selection bias--I mentioned that previously in a post down below. I'm not saying everyone is sick though. I'm saying I've seen thousands of windows machines with malware and a lot of the time it wasn't just an uneducated user problem. My first store was also about an hour away from the nearest mac store so I also saw a pretty fair amount of macs while working there. They came in all the time for hardware issues so obviously they aren't perfect--But I never once saw one with malware--not in 5 years. I don't think that they are magically immune to malware and some of it can be explained by smaller market share, but whatever the reason from my experience dealing with thousands of windows pcs and hundreds of macs--malware on macs is so insignificant that it doesn't exist. 5 years ago people were saying that malware for macs was coming (In fact Best Buy was pushing AV installs for macs when we first started carrying them), but it didn't materialize. For the average user--if you buy a windows machine you will probably have to deal with malware, but if you go with a mac the chance is so low that is virutally nonexistent.