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To: driftdiver

It could be because MACS are not a big market and the perception is that most of the hacking attacks take place more on PC’s then Macs.


10 posted on 02/06/2010 12:22:52 PM PST by Biggirl ("Jesus talked to us as individuals"-Jim Vicevich/Thanks JimV!=^..^==^..^==^..^==^..^==^..^=)
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To: Biggirl

“It could be because MACS are not a big market and the perception is that most of the hacking attacks take place more on PC’s then Macs.”

And of course MAC believers ( I say believers because its a religion for many of them) want you to think that.

The reality is there are many aspects to security. Mac does not make a server OS which is the source of many of the problems. Mac is better against certain threats and worse at others.


15 posted on 02/06/2010 12:34:14 PM PST by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: Biggirl
It could be because MACS are not a big market and the perception is that most of the hacking attacks take place more on PC’s then Macs.

How large does that Mac market have to get before the crackers and crooks take notice of all those naked unprotected computers blythely surfing the Internet and start writing nasty ware for them, Biggirl? Ten million? Twenty? Thirty? Would you be surprised to know there are almost Fifty million Mac OS X computers in use in the world.

Malware writers have written PC viruses for Windows PCs targeting vulnerable population numbering fewer than 12,000 machines.

Why do then they ignore 50,000,000 Macs? I assure it's not obscurity.

119 posted on 02/08/2010 6:36:35 PM PST by Swordmaker (Remember, the proper pronunciation of IE isAAAAIIIIIEEEEEEE!)
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