"Experts" Say Macs Are Not Safer Than PCs

MoneyT writes "As reported at vnunet, experts are claiming that Macs are no safer than PCs in terms of protection from a virus. Seems more to me like they're just saying that we Mac users aren't invulnerable, but until I see things like nimda taking out my Mac, I'll stick with the iBook." The article doesn't mention that the "7,000 macro viruses" attack Microsoft products (leaving uses of a Mac only as a web server completely protected from them), nor does it quote any statistics about how many Mac vs. Windows viruses exist, and it doesn't address the real- world fact that Macs are hit with viruses far less often than Windows machines.

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less macs exist

[kirn_malinus]

and it doesn't address the real- world fact that Macs are hit with viruses far less often than Windows machines

mac os (any version) runs on far less machines than windows (any version). therefore less people who can code are on macs. therefore less people who write virii (speaking in percentages of the population) are on macs as opposed to pcs. this means that less mac viruses will exist.

no one ever thought macs were less vulnerable than anything else. nothing is any more or less vulnerable really, everything probably has some exploitable bug if you look hard enough. there have just always been less people making virii and such for macs. percentage wise the amount of virii for macs is probably comparable to the market share of the os.