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Originally Posted by Chris
... and yet many thousands of us do, and have done so for many years. You need to get yourself out of the Windows mindset, it's obviously bad for you and causing you to be paranoid.  |
sorry but im not in a windows mindset its just that as someone else said how do you even know that your mac is virus free ? no os is 100% secure whether its linux, windows or mac os & to think that it is, is crazy at the end of the day its your computer so do as you please with it.
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Originally Posted by Damien
Indeed. However Windows has gotten much, much better at security issues. Hence why I feel safe not to install a anti-virus as long as my firewall is up. (And being careful who I open attachments from). This is the same policy I have on my Mac, firewall up and no virus scanner.
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as i said no os is safe so doing that is pretty silly.
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Originally Posted by ZrByte
You say paranoid, I say prepared. How would you propose you would get rid of an infection on your mac after it is there? Most AV wont run on a compromised system so you then rely on system restores, OS reinstalls etc. If the virus becomes widespread enough you may be able to get a standalone utility that will clean up but its all a bit excessive when all you need to do is take your head out of the sand.
And I think you will find the windows virus culture is spread by windows users in the same mindset as yourself. Those who use up to-date AV certainly wont be vulnerable to infection.
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well said.
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Originally Posted by Maggy J
To be honest MACs don't have a problem because they are too expensive and therefore don't have the market share that Windows machines have.
I'd love a Mac but I just cannot justify the cost..  |
either your taking the pee or you have no idea about computers, in case its the latter just because something is expensive doesnt make it good.