Considering buying a Mac

toasterman

sleep2much wrote: »

It maybe sensationalist cr4p I agree, but if OS X was ever released to the world beyond Mac hardware (legally) it would surely become a target, it's not the fact that it's super secure, it's just that it's only a tiny part of the market, and these hacker types know they are wasting their efforts.
As for percentages, I've always hated it's use, pay deals for example, bloke on £10,000 a year gets a 4% pay rise, the managers trying to look equal take a 4% rise too, on £50,000, so they end up with a tasty £2000 while the bloke has to be happy with £400, and so it goes on, as far as I'm concerned they should get a fixed amount each. %'s :-P

No way. Most managers I've come across in my life were worth a lot more than they were paid already.

You are right about Mac. If you're an idiot and you want to do something destructive, upset a lot of people, ruin some people's businesses perhaps - you don't release a virus for mac or linux - you go for the one with the most users. Windows has the majority by a long way, and so it's the obvious target.

You can't even say that each 1 mac attack equates to so many windows attacks - because that doesn't tally either. Whichever is the most popular (if similar and a security hole can be exploited), will get attacked, then spread it on to other users of same operating system..and so on. It's an unfair comparison really unless windows/mac/linux all had a similar number of users, in similar environments.