Apple suggests Mac users to install antivirus software

[vlad321]

Senlis said:

vlad321 said:

The only reason Macs don't get viruses is because viruses are not made for them. Apple is extremely inexperienced when compare to Microsoft when it comes to handling exploits and overall security. Microsoft has been dealing with crap like that for over a decade, Apple hasn't even really bothered. Pray that the Mac never overtakes Windows because then it will be a field day for hackers and malicious code programmers.

People said the same thing about firefox, that there are less exploits for firefox since it is not used as much as Internet Explorer.  Now that firefox is widely used, it is still more secure than IE7.

I can list several reasons that Mac is more secure than PC.  A couple are: 1) They do not use file extensions to define how the operating system handles files. 2) MacOSX core is a linux OS, which runs more secure than Windows.

People will always say that the product with the smaller market share are more secure only because hackers don't make exploits for them whether or not it is true.  If MacOS was so easy to hack, more people would do it, regardless of the market share.

 

 

FX just barely passed 20% market share and the Mac is still under 15%, hardly "widely used." Still FX gets some exploits patched already with updates. You are also forgetting that the common garage hacker hates Microsoft as a corporation specifically due to its size and practices, thus trying to bring it down, in a way. Why would more people bother to exploit less than 20% of the people when they can go for the other 80%? If I could aim for somethign I wouldn't even bother for something that small. You forget that evrything is currntly hackable and if Mac gets near 50% it wil start getting attacked as well, especially considering Apple's practices are just as bad if not worse than Microsoft's. Given Apple's inexpereince in the field of security things would really get interesting then.