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One of the huge selling points for Apple computers is that you don't have to worry about viruses, spyware, etc. Why/How are they so secure?
PowerBookG4 said:I think if windows had it more like osx.. where you are the admin but you still need to put your password in to install programs or change setting then it would be alot more stable and usable os.. I switched over to macs because of how easy it was for a virus just to float on in and I got tired of playing around with virus software and what not so I was happy to say that I am a proud mac owner now and I don't think that if a mac does get a virus that I will switch back, like everyone else was saying I think that if there was to get a mac os x virus that it would have to ask you for your password for it to cause serious damage so alot of people who know what they are doing are not just going to put their password in just because it asks for it, although they can hide the password box so that you think its because your changing a system setting that you have wanted to chage.. (maybe they will have it ask you for your password when resizing the dock or changing your background) and then it will install the virus then, never under estimate the power of the hacker mind they can pretty much do what ever they wanted.
macguy.nielsen said:Well it has a little to do with the fact that the Apple market is a lot smaller then the PC market. Other things are that the OS is a lot more stable then Windows. Taking those factors and a couple others into play and you don't get viruses. I'm sure that it will happen sometime, but until that happens, there still hasn't been a successful virus written to date
t-lo said:So a better way to put it would be this; Apples don't have viruses, spyware, etc., now. OR Will hackers never be able to find a way around the admin. password issue?
And those classic OS 'viruses' really only affected you if you had MS Word or MS Excel version 5 or earlier for Mac. They were basically bad macros.Graphite said:OSc (classic) had I believe about 5-10 viruses.. and worms... its been around for a long time... OSX just isn't a target, and holes are patched every few months.