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Originally Posted by willravel
Just because we have't gotten a virus doesn't mean we are not vigilant in protecting our systems. Apple has a crack team of programmers that's only job is staying succesful against those who would create virisus and worms and trojans. We get security updates just like you do, the marked difference is our security is 100% preventative.
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And this is a mistake. Ask any security expert and they all say that good security must involve overlapping layers.
Having a single layer is very dangerous. Macs need to add 2 more layers to avoid viruses. The first is detection and correction and the second is user education. I fear the second one is where Mac (and PC) users need the most work. Many people who use a Mac truly believe that their computers are immune to viruses and the mac salesman have furthered this by saying it when selling the computers to users. What happens when the first good mac trojan gets spammed out to mac users and people blindly execute the code?