By this I mean the ability for programmers to use the same tricks this version that they used last version. Other people have answered this well but I want to chime in with something additional. Mac, especially OSX, was designed much more recently, and from an operating system that had pretty good security to start with. It was not designed for security, it was designed to get as many people using as many different types of computers as possible. Windows 8 can trace a lot of itself back to computers from days when the Internet was a novelty through a telephone if you had a modem, and the only way to get software was on floppy disks. Windows PCs have been deriving from a lot of the same underlying technology for a long time now. Two, Macs do historically have better security. This is called "herd immunity" and it works so well in favor for Macs because there are so few, Mac's are more "surrounded" by PCs that they generally can't catch a virus from. They don't have to avoid everybody, just the people that are infected. Like people getting sick, if you have 10 people in a house, and 5 of them are immune to a cold, and one person gets a cold that isn't immune, the other 4 non-immune people are less likely to get it because those 5 immune ones can't spread it to them. One, like others have said, there just aren't as many Macs out there, so it's less lucrative, and if a Mac does get a virus, it's less likely to spread it to another Mac via a PC.
You're entitled to your opinion - now, please do me the same courtesy, and stop accusing me of being misleading over a difference of opinion.
I think the first scenario would see some amateur criminals increasing the number of viruses slightly, and the second scenario would see a big increase in viruses (which ARE POSSIBLE, as I've proved), because professional criminals who are responsible for most viruses aren't lazy.Ī difference of opinion.
You think that the first scenario would create a flood of viruses, the second scenario would make no difference, because criminals are lazy and will go for the easy target.
And I provided proof that there is no technical reason why Macs can't get viruses - proof in that Apple's own Macs have been infected by a virus.ġ) If all the security was removed from Macs, but the user base remained the same, how many more viruses would they get?Ģ) If 90% of Windows users switched to Macs, and the security was left unchanged, how many more viruses would Macs get compared to now?
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