"Experts" Say Macs Are Not Safer Than PCs

Posted by pudge on Wednesday May 29, 2002 @03:31AM from the and-i-say-that-the-middle-east-is-a-great-vacation-spot-this-year dept.

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 demand for viruses, not less feasable... by Drakino · 2002-05-29 03:36 · Score: 1, Troll

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

Well the real world fact is that viruses work based off the ability to infect other machines. Odds are pretty good of finding another Windows box in a random scan compaired to a Mac box. Plus you now have two seperate operating systems on a Mac to write for, not just one like many common Windows viruses. (OS 9 and X). If Apple had say 45% OS market share, I'm sure there would be many more Mac viruses rampaging across the net.