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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 window
by 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.