No Viruses on OS X

When was the last time you heard someboy said ther MacBook crashed? NEVER! If you think about it, it's always a PC! Apple makes sure that your purchase in their store will be secured and that no viruses will get in. This article even says that it's hard to attack the Mac just because there's not a lot to attack about! Microsoft could never be equipped like Apple can. Some people (mostly Microsoft supporters) like to claim there are no Mac OS X viruses because there is not enough market share to encourage them to write viruses for it. But, Paul Venezia of InfoWorld cleverly makes the point that market share has nothing to do with it. Virus writers like to show off and the real reason why we haven’t seen any Mac attacks is simply due to the fact that Macs are just more secure.

It is so difficult to successfully attack the Mac, virus writers simply give up and go back to attacking windows because why put the time and resources into Macs when they can have full run of most windows machines without any effort at all. Even when there is a vulnerability discovered on the Mac there isn’t a rush to exploit it because the OS further prevents attackers from gaining full control and doing much harm. With Windows, once an attacker is “in” the entire machine and every layer is compromised in most cases. More and more viruses are deploying rootkits and other means to avoid detection and the only way Windows users can be sure they’re rid of the malware is to fully format the entire machine.

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