I'm not infected. Frankly, keeping your AV up-to-date isn't rocket science
and any belief that it is too risky is just bluster. Particularly behind a
decent router.
Don't use because I don't have them? I tend to buy what I want (even if I
don't need it :))
This thread is silly. Don't get me wrong, I like Macs and want one. I just
have other toys on my list first.
My frustration with many Mac users is that they wear blinders about a
Windows box. Windows does everything I need it to.
Tom
> -----Original Message-----
> From: olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx] On
> Behalf Of Jay Maynard
> Sent: Monday, June 11, 2007 1:12 PM
> To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [OM] Re: [OT] Intel Mac users only -- mac and pc the lines
> just got totally blurred -new parallels
>
>
> On Mon, Jun 11, 2007 at 01:06:04PM -0400, Tom Scales wrote:
> > If Microsoft Office and Adobe Photoshop are now included
> applications, then
> > you win the argument. Since those are essentially the two
> applications that
> > I use, anything else included free is about as useful to me as a
> superduper
> > version of Minesweeper. Giving me free things I don't use.....
>
> How much of that is that you don't use them because you don't have
> them?
>
> > My AV is free.
> > My anti-spyware is free.
>
> And you desperately need both in order to stave off the hordes of
> security
> exploits...and I wouldn't be at all surprised if your machine was
> infected
> anyway.
>
> > If Macs were popular enough, they'd have problems too. They're not
> > invulnerable. They're just popular enough to bother.
>
> No OS is invulnerable, I'll agree. OTOH, Windows is inherently insecure
> *by
> design*; making it secure would break the vast majority of existing
> applications. AFAIK, there are no exploits for OS X in the wild that do
> not
> require a cooperating user. The Unix security model makes life a lot
> harder
> for a malware writer.
>
> My roommate's parents are a case in point. We got so tired of trying to
> debug their Windows system remotely that we bought them a Mac Mini for
> Christmas a couple of years ago. We're all much, much happier, and
> their
> computing experience is a lot more trouble-free.
> --
> Jay Maynard, K5ZC http://www.conmicro.com
> http://jmaynard.livejournal.com http://www.tronguy.net
> http://www.hercules-390.org (Yes, that's me!)
> Buy Hercules stuff at http://www.cafepress.com/hercules-390
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