@Predrag Vasic
“A fully-patched Windows XP computer (with no additional software, such as anti-virus) is compromised within minutes of being put on the internet; meanwhile, vast majority of Macs out there do not even run any antivirus, and have been exposed to the internet for years, without compromise. And almost half of all Windows PCs out there still run Windows XP…
It will be years before that advice (buy Macs, they are much, much more safe) stops being good and sound advice. Until then, whenever a new trojan appears for a Mac (and they appear so rarely, they always make front pages), “
Thats because nobody writes malware and viruses for Macs because there is not as large of a user base, hence, less chance for large profits for attackers. It is never good advice to buy a Mac because they are more safe and don’t need antivirus protection. This is the same reason I run Linux. There is a smaller user base and nobody writes viruses for it. I am not naive enough to say it is safer and I don’t need malware/virus protection (even though you can limit sudo, root, groups, etc…)
BTW, I rejoice every time an Apple user gets infected on their “immune” machine because they took the good advice of an “apple genius” that said, “Macs cannot catch a cold, it is impossible.” LMAO
Article source: http://www.zdnet.com/blog/hardware/new-os-x-malware-variant-attacks-unpatched-macs/18532
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