> Does anyone remember the I'm a PC ads, where macs were magically "secure", couldn't get viruses or hacked or anything?
Well in 2006 when those ads were first being shown, XP was still the newest version of Windows and it had no privilege separation. As viruses that patched MBR sectors or system DLLs were extremely common, MacOS X was in fact "magically" (inherently) more secure since that vector of attack on a Mac would require a password prompt to elevate the program's privileges.
From then to this day, Mac viruses have been effectively non-existent in the wild. There have been some trojans and worms, but they can't rightfully be classified as viruses (no infection of other files).
I agree. I guess the guys down here in the greyed out area are more after some kind of justice. It's more the arrogance of apple that people want to give back to apple.
> Well in 2006 when those ads were first being shown, XP was still the newest version of Windows and it had no privilege separation
That's probably false. Windows introduced this feature in Windows 2000 (from 1999) and you could define a "normal" user and a "power" user. Only when you needed to install something would you run as the power-user.
This all worked inside the same desktop session.
That maybe only 1% of the users (the "paranoid" ones) used it, doesn't mean it wasn't there.
Well in 2006 when those ads were first being shown, XP was still the newest version of Windows and it had no privilege separation. As viruses that patched MBR sectors or system DLLs were extremely common, MacOS X was in fact "magically" (inherently) more secure since that vector of attack on a Mac would require a password prompt to elevate the program's privileges.
From then to this day, Mac viruses have been effectively non-existent in the wild. There have been some trojans and worms, but they can't rightfully be classified as viruses (no infection of other files).