I Hate Microsoft!

[tribalman]

I prefer to work on a Mac because it generally just works!

"If everything on a Mac just works, then why does a website called "Mac fix it" exist?" Maddox, The Best Page in the Universe

also, if you work a bit with windows, like about 30 minutes, you can really get it to hum. i haven't done all of the stuff on my desktop that i do with my laptop because the laptop is my test machine, but when i put in the hdd in that is running xp home, i can go from running the machine and restart and be back up and running within 30 seconds. btw, the laptop has 1.25GB of ram on an Intel Celeron M 410 @ 1.46GHz so it's nothing impressive hardware wise.

[paintball72]

for all of my windows needs i just use the UNL colledge campus store. they sell os's to students for $10 and ill just give someone who goes there a $20 and they profit because they probably wouldnt use it and its a bit more reliable than the shady windows stuff ive used. i also like pc's because i can build a nice gameing machine for $600 and if i want an ubber play the newest game out at max graphic resolution without a glitch it just takes a little searching on newegg and $800-1000 which is a ton cheaper than best buy. for the same performance. just my .02

i do have to say that i do all of my online ordering on a mac because it seems that nobody makes viruses for them.

[tribalman]

i do have to say that i do all of my online ordering on a mac because it seems that nobody makes viruses for them.

really? just do a little search for "macintosh virus".

check this from http://blog.washingtonpost.com/secur..._on_a_mac.html :
"According to an alert issued Monday by Intego, a company that sells anti-virus software for the Mac, a number of Mac user forums are being spammed with links to video porn sites that prompt Mac users to install one of these magic codecs. Intego says the trade-off is hardly worth it, as Mac users who agree to install the software don't get to view any additional racy material, and yet they're left with a nasty little rash on their machine to boot.

Intego says the bogus codec silently changes the user's DNS settings so that when they visit certain financial sites -- such as eBay, PayPal, and those of several banks -- the victim is routed to a counterfeit look-alike site designed to swipe their credentials. " - Brian Krebs

[Hexis]

really? just do a little search for "macintosh virus".

check this from http://blog.washingtonpost.com/secur..._on_a_mac.html :
"According to an alert issued Monday by Intego, a company that sells anti-virus software for the Mac, a number of Mac user forums are being spammed with links to video porn sites that prompt Mac users to install one of these magic codecs. Intego says the trade-off is hardly worth it, as Mac users who agree to install the software don't get to view any additional racy material, and yet they're left with a nasty little rash on their machine to boot.

Intego says the bogus codec silently changes the user's DNS settings so that when they visit certain financial sites -- such as eBay, PayPal, and those of several banks -- the victim is routed to a counterfeit look-alike site designed to swipe their credentials. " - Brian Krebs

Read the details, the malware in that case relied up the user installing a codec for the malware to function. A clear example of a trojan horse, but not something you could pickup by just browsing. Even if you hijack the hosts file, you will still get SSL cert warnings on any of the sites that are being redirected. Not that much of a threat. If you can get someone to install software on any platform with administrative rights you can own the machine, regardless of the platform.

You can hate OSX all you want, it does not change the fact that there is almost no malware in the wild for it. The majority (more than half) of the really hard core information security folks I know of use Macs as their machines. That should tell you something about the system right there (and that infosec folks are paid well). Go to any of the major SANS conferences and the only MS laptop you find is the instructor for Securing Windows (well that and the targets for the last day of 504).