Rekna

I hate when people dog on Microsoft for security flaws up the wazoo. I see an article all the time about the latest virus and below that you see ignorent people saying "look another microsoft flaw switch to Mac!" Now I use linux just as much as I use windows, i'm working on my PHD in computer science and can safely say i know enough about computers, bugs, and security flaws to comment on this.

Wake up people! it is not that Microsoft is increadibly insecure it is that there are magnitudes of more people attacking windows than any other platform. Why? Because that is where the most people are. If mac or linux controlled 90% of the market you would quickly see them hit by all kinds of malware, viruses, worms, ect. All programs have these flaws in them. Maybe microsoft isn't the quickest at patching them but they aren't as bad as people make them out to be.

Now for the naysayers on this board who don't believe me here is a perfect example that proves my point. My parents are computer illeterate and not nothing about keeping a computer safe from exploits. They don't keep their virus software updated. The machine is not protected by a firewall. My parents don't patch weekly. Now the question is why don't they get hit by malware, viruses, ect? The answer is simple. They use windows 98. People have stopped writing viruses and exploits for that sytem. All the major recent worms didn't even scathe 98. Is 98 way more secure than XP? no way!

So the next time someone says I use Mac because it is so much more secure..... pop their bubble please because it is so annoying.