If, like me, you got sick of those smarmy East Coasty Mac vs PC TV ads recently, you probably noted the Apple guy boasting about the lack of security issues they face.
Well, until now. The launch of iPhone is opening up a little hornet's nest.
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Normally a fan but what a stupid spin Ian.
Most mobile phones are hackable including Blackberry and PP. How has this anything to do with security on Mac's? In more than 20 years of Mac use, the last 8 on open network I have never encountered a virus on any of my Mac's.
Just do yourself a favour and swop Ian. It will change your life.:)
Posted by: Bok | July 24, 2007 at 07:29 AM
Ah Ian.
You know you want both a Mac and an iPhone. You're certainly creative and intelligent enough! Have a great day!
Posted by: Simon Diprose | July 24, 2007 at 09:22 AM
Religious issues like these always bring out the nutters! :ob
Posted by: peasant | July 24, 2007 at 10:12 AM
There has been a few Mac viruses around for awhile now, but they aren't at bubonic plague proportions for the usual PCs.
If Mac gets more of a market share then I think you'll find more virus programs will be created.
Posted by: AcidComments | July 24, 2007 at 05:28 PM
"There has been a few Mac viruses around for awhile now, but they aren't at bubonic plague proportions for the usual PCs.
If Mac gets more of a market share then I think you'll find more virus programs will be created."
Possible relevant anecdote: my parents used a computer with Windows 95 for web access from about 2001 onwards - they'd owned the machine since 1997, but hadn't connected it to the web until four years later.
By the time they replaced the computer in 2004 there was almost no virus issue - all the script kiddies, crackers and other malicious programmers were targeting more recent versions of Windows. Hardly anyone was bothering to write new viruses for Win 95 anymore.
They lost the contents of their hard drive twice with the old computer - both viruses brought in from infected floppy disks before 2001. From 2001 to 2004, they had no problems at all.
Writing a new virus for a relatively rare operating system takes a lot of time - more effort than most of the teenage nooblets who spread malicious code around are willing to put in. In the dark corners of the web, you can download tons of malicious code to attack common Windows systems. Not so with the Mac OS.
Posted by: Sam Finnemore | July 24, 2007 at 06:53 PM
Posted by: peasant | July 25, 2007 at 12:13 AM
Oops, link should have been the other way round
Crazed Apple fanboy mows down churchgoer
The Register also has some hard-case comments..
Posted by: peasant | July 25, 2007 at 12:20 AM
Peasant
Good post - but does this apply to Apple desktop systems also???
Posted by: robk | July 25, 2007 at 07:15 AM