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Tremorlor 05:35 pm UTC 05/14/07 |
| In reply to: | re: NJC: Put your hand up if... - GTKarber 04:43 pm UTC 05/14/07 |
| > Whether or not my Mac is secure because of the small > marketshare or because it's inherently more secure doesn't > matter to me. http://www.macworld.com/news/2007/04/30/daizovi/index.php "From your research on both platforms, is there a winner between Mac OS X 10.4 and Vista on security? I have found the code quality, at least in terms of security, to be much better overall in Vista than Mac OS X 10.4. It is obvious from observing affected components in security patches that Microsoft’s Security Development Lifecycle (SDL) has resulted in fewer vulnerabilities in newly-written code. I hope that more software vendors follow their lead in developing proactive software security development methodologies." > The fact of the matter is, in the real world, I am less > likely to get a virus on my computer. You can tell me > (truthfully) that I could prevent viruses on a Windows > machine, as well, as long as I was willing to constantly > update and run an anti-virus program, two spyware > sweepers, and a firewall. > Frankly, this seems a bit time-consuming. Once it's installed, I don't consider it time consuming at all. Firewall and scanner do run in the background. I never open attachments of e-mails whose sender I don't know - if it even makes it through the spam filter that runs on the server. Course I could also try to run DOS 6 + Win3.11. Guess I could go online with that combination too without protection and no virus would find me. Likely they'd be too embarassed to infect 3.11. > You say that > Apple and Linux machines will not run the programs you > need to run, so that is the end-all for you in terms of > selection. There is no need to argue other points. In a > similar way, I enjoy a machine that always runs smoothly > without the need for constant virus maintenence. That is > the end-all for my choice. It does come down to software selection. Stuff I use daily won't run on either of the two competitors, if you find alternatives on either Mac or Linux and you prefer those to giving money to Microsoft, ok. > And so, we're both happy with our selections. Right? Yep. | |
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