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Subject: [OM] Re: [OT] Intel Mac users only -- mac and pc the lines just got totally blurred -new parallels
From: Jay Maynard <jmaynard@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2007 12:12:27 -0500
On Mon, Jun 11, 2007 at 01:06:04PM -0400, Tom Scales wrote:
> If Microsoft Office and Adobe Photoshop are now included applications, then
> you win the argument.  Since those are essentially the two applications that
> I use, anything else included free is about as useful to me as a superduper
> version of Minesweeper.  Giving me free things I don't use.....

How much of that is that you don't use them because you don't have them?

> My AV is free.
> My anti-spyware is free.

And you desperately need both in order to stave off the hordes of security
exploits...and I wouldn't be at all surprised if your machine was infected
anyway.

> If Macs were popular enough, they'd have problems too.  They're not
> invulnerable. They're just popular enough to bother.

No OS is invulnerable, I'll agree. OTOH, Windows is inherently insecure *by
design*; making it secure would break the vast majority of existing
applications. AFAIK, there are no exploits for OS X in the wild that do not
require a cooperating user. The Unix security model makes life a lot harder
for a malware writer.

My roommate's parents are a case in point. We got so tired of trying to
debug their Windows system remotely that we bought them a Mac Mini for
Christmas a couple of years ago. We're all much, much happier, and their
computing experience is a lot more trouble-free.
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