With windows 7 macs don't have the antivirus cost advantage anymore, since microsoft's security program is pretty darn effective so far.
since microsoft's security program is pretty darn effective so far.
so far.
These are rare and like all viruses, these 'superviruses' need a path to get through into your computer. Not opening any suspicious emails or links usually prevents against this, unless the virus infects an entire website that you regularly visit, but even then my (FREE) antivirus has great heuristic detection and so I don't think I would be in much trouble. And in case, against all odds, my computer did actually become unusable- I would buy a new PC. Know why? Because the cost of the new PC plus the original cost of my broken one would still probably be less than a Mac of equal performance.
I have never had this happen and probably never will and even if it does happen it still wouldn't justify a Mac's price tag \o/ Plus, as I understand it, these 'superviruses' are among the minority of viruses that can affect a Macintosh; in addition, even regular, low-tier viruses can infect a Mac if you're emulating Windows on there :|
Mac vs Windows ends now, please.
If you want to discuss open a new thread and don't start a flame war.
Back on topic.
They do not have a CPU which makes it unique for Apple. They can promote their products by saying it saves space and the other good thing i know about Apple is out of 10 people who has a computer, 7/10 are using Window OS whereas the remaining are Apple OS, if you were the hackers, which OS would you rather hack?