> The genie is out of the bottle It has been for a long time, ever since around Mac OS 8 where the peak production of Mac malware happened. As Miller said, Mac

> The genie is out of the bottle It has been for a long time, ever since around Mac OS 8 where the peak production of Mac malware happened. As Miller said, Mac OS X is not necessarily more secure but it's currently comfortably safer. That does not mean the area should not be watched for any evolution. > Lecture me about my environment and my needs. I did not wish to make it sound like a lecture, and am genuinely interested in what your environment looks like and what led you to using rsync instead of Time Machine, and how you overcame the cases I mentioned (if ever you were concerned by them in your use case). > Thats awesome, but I'm really not interested in your pissing contest. I'm not pissing anywhere, but you do seem pissed. If anything, your environment and needs, just like mine, are anecdotal.