Macs, how secure

[ed again]

in the last few days i have received a popup or two re malware in my MS Office power point. Once while opening the hindustani times, is this a scam of some sort, or could there be a problem
Cheers, Ed.

 

[Bigtwin]

There are things out there targetting macs, but they are few and far between, to say the least.

I run nothing protective on mine, and no home user I know with one (so...that's about half a dozen personally) do either. None of use have ever had a problem of any kind.

Mac thrive on this reputation. If there was a threat, they'd make sure we knew. No just coz they are sound caring imaginative artistic types, but coz it'd be commercial suicide not to.

 

[cookie]

if you don't run any anti virus, how do you know if you are infected?

 

[LiquidLAN]

Thats easy, you just wait until you email you're friends etc, and they will tell you

 

[Bigtwin]

if you don't run any anti virus, how do you know if you are infected?

Every now and then I used to scan to check. Never ever found anything, so only remember about twice a year.

And being a Mac, it just keeps working problem free. It was partly all the virus shite that you get with Doze rubbish that got me into Macs in the first place. None of that pishing about with updating and sweeping and restoring etc.

And they are made by intelligent people for intelligent people too of course

 

[cookie]

And being a Mac, it just keeps working problem free.

this is the bit about macs i just don't understand. my xp machines do this anyway

maybe you lot all ran out and bought macs after being exposed to windows 98, whose only saving grace was is wasn't quite so crap as W95.

hang on, just had a horrible thought. it was windows millennium wasn't it?

 

[judge]

Don't get me wrong I'm a big fan of Macs, well designed, good components and since OS 10, a fantastic operating system, but they are not infallable and my books tell me that I've seen a significant increase in Mac clients who have experienced problems and in the main they have got there because they believed the hype of "no I'm a Mac user so I don't need no security" its true they are encourged to stay 'within the camp' and not stray for their software or peripherals and if they toe the line they might be OK but a demanding Windoze user will be very constrained by a Mac.

But as Cookie says XP in safe knowledgable hands is a very stable environment, as is W2K and I wouldn't give up one for the other, luckily my work requires me to have both

 

[Bigtwin]

Got an XP machine too, and have to use one at work. It's OK. Macs are just - better - generally. Minimum fuss, logical, and simpler, and of course aesthetically streets ahead.