It amuses me somewhat that the first post I make on this blog is about porn.
Nah, not really. I’m reading about boobytrapped porn sites designed to infect Macs and wondering about the whole thing. I’m always engaged in a constant war of Mac vs. PC with various Mac-loving-PC-hating friends of mine and strangely the number one point in every argument they present is that Macs don’t have any known viruses. Untrue now? I think untrue previously but quashed by marketing attempts and as the article says, it’s lead to a whole lot of complacent users.
Are PC users as complacent as Mac users? Hell no, because they’ve all been brought up on a steady diet of spyware, malware and email viruses. Even my (very computer illiterate) father knows how to use a virus scanner. And of course I’m not saying Mac users don’t know how to use virus (or any other type of) scanners but given the way the internet is today it seems risky to listen to the Mac marketing people when they assure everyone that Macs are safe. Also, that no one kicked up a stink when it took Apple 6 months to plug a security hole is pretty amazing. If Microsoft haven’t patched new security problems within 6 hours half the PC community starts crying foul.
