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Intel Head Recommends Apple

pboulang writes "noted in this article in the WSJ: Pressed about security by Mr. Mossberg, Mr. Otellini had a startling confession: He spends an hour a weekend removing spyware from his daughter's computer. And when further pressed about whether a mainstream computer user in search of immediate safety from security woes ought to buy Apple Computer Inc.'s Macintosh instead of a Wintel PC, he said, "If you want to fix it tomorrow, maybe you should buy something else.""

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  1. Re:Oh Reginald.... I DISAGREE!!! by supabeast! · · Score: 4, Informative

    That's why OS X gives those files to the root account, and will only delete them if the user has administrative access and provides a password to do it.