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Unicode - In article , Geoffrey Welsh wrote: Well, there's a great plan: let's all switch to Macs which, after all, are fine systems that don't get one tenth the attention of virus writers that Wintel systems do. Do you really believe that, if 90% of the systems out there were Macs, it wouldn't be the same situation with only the names reversed?!?Emphatically YES.There are two opposing viewpoints I see being suggested, if notdirectly expressed, and both are wrong:* Macs are completely invulnerable to viruses* Macs are just as vulnerable to viruses as MS-WindowsThe fact is that Macs are vulnerable to some viruses, but stillintrinsically *less* vulnerable than MS-Windows. Yes, the main reasonthat Macs get so few viruses is simply that the virus writers mostlyignore Macs in favor of the much LARGER target, but the fact remainsthat MS-Windows is also intrinsically a much EASIER target to writeviruses for.When the Mac pioneered peer-to-peer networking, each user had to turnit on. By default, your entire hard disk was inaccessible to otherusers until you enabled it, at which point you selected one folder(directory) to be shared. Conversely, when Windows stepped into thegame, they by default gave any anonymous guest user full read/writeaccess to your entire hard disk, because it would be *inconvenient* tohave to actually do something to let your co-worker (or someone with acable modem down the street from your home) have his way with yourentire system. That's just one of legions of examples. The simple factis that historically Apple has been, certainly not flawless, but farmore careful than Microsoft about security issues. Microsoft hasalways valued user convenience over user security.If 90% of desktop systems were Macs, there would be a lot more virusesfor Mac than for Windows, but there would still be fewer Mac virusesthan there are Windows viruses today, and there would still be moreWindows viruses than there are Mac viruses today.Sometimes a car thief will choose a 1976 Honda over a brand new Lexuswith an anti-theft ignition lock.(For the clue-impaired, the point of the analogy is that the oldclunker is easier to steal, and may be a better choice even though ithas far less resale value. Analogously, many virus writers would stillchoose MS-Windows as their target even if the Mac dominated themarket.)Furthermore, there's a flaw in your "what if everybody did it"reasoning. Apple could quintuple its market share, and MS-Windows wouldstill be a dominant near-monopoly. For an individual user, then, itdoes make a lot of sense to move to the system that receives far lessattention from virus writers, because that fact isn't going to changeany time soon -- certainly not in the 3- to 5-year life cycle of atypical computer.www dot LincMad dot com / Telecom at LincMad dot comLinc Madison * San Francisco, California
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