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Originally Posted by ratbastid
No, that's evidence that software companies that can make money off paranoid people.
I used Windows for years and years, and I never bought a virus scanner. If you know what you're doing, you can stay clean--YOU'RE always the one to infect your own machine, at the end of the day.
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I think you answered your own point
If you know what you're doing, you can stay clean - it is a big assumption that the average end user knows what they are doing
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Originally Posted by willravel
Apple offered $25,000 for anyone who could hack Mac OS X. The offer was open for something like 2.5 years. Not one person collected. There was a rumor of a hydra, but it was debunked.
BTW, Mac controls about 15% of the laptop market.
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which is not to say there aren't holes (people discover new things all the time...) or that there are no trojans (as ubertuber pointed out) that run on it.