No kidding.
I'm no fan of the Mac ads, though. Matter of fact, they are why I will NEVER own a Mac. Insulting me is not the way to get my business. It's the liberal way of trying to change a person's mind, by belittling them and insulting them. All I know about Macs from those ads is that they seem to believe that "coolness" is the deciding factor in a computer purchase.
As for security, it's the global warming of the home PC market.
They are insulting Microsoft. The characters represent the operating systems, not the users.
LOL. Your cubbard at home must be quite bare. Seems like most advertising I see someone is getting made fun of.
The ads in question seem to exploit what all us know deep down. You find PCs in the accounting department and Macs in the marketing department.
Great way to put it. I have been aflicted by exactly one semi-serious virus in my 15 years of using PCs.
On this we disagree.....Global Warming is a myth....security on PCs is very real. I know, I do it for a living. It doesn't take a whole lot of work, kind of like bumping a lock. Once you know how..it's nothing hard.
As long as you don't do anything like on-line banking or investing, I suppose you're right. Who cares how much malware you get on a home PC. Of course, sometimes these people also run small businesses, and go to Sams Club to buy PCs to network their small office, and hook them up directly to the Internet, with no firewall, virus protection, or security concerns.
Oh, BTW, I've seen larger companies, where a single virus infection has cost the company well upwards of a half million dollars, because they weren't concerned with security. One example was a former client of mine who just used the pre-installed McAfee and Symantec "trial" AV software, and never bothered with buying the subscriptions, or getting a proper network version of the software... They got hit with a really nasty variant of a virus that destroyed the contents of .doc and .xls with payloads that would infect other systems if opened. The problem was that the company had all sorts of network shares on individual PCs, as well as an infected file server. It took 3 of us @ $150/an hour 4 full days go completely clean their entire network. They also lost a total of 6 days worth of production work, and in some cases, lost weeks or even months of individual work, due to storing data on local workstations that didn't get backed up, as opposed to storing the data on the server, which did.
A lot of people don't take security anywhere near as seriously as I do, but then, that's what I do for a living.
Mark