On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 10:23 AM, <erikhansen@thebluezone.net> wrote:
Well, some of the new operating systems for Mac's are windows based. I am hesitant to buy a new Mac with the newer operating systems my opinion is that Mac made a mistake with their newer software making it easier to hack.
This is about as bad as some of the sudo-science running around these days with supermoons and supermars. :P It's almost like saying that Toyota is more KIA based today and that's why their breaks failed in the prius. Mac OS is a extreme variant of BSD. Nothing about the Mac OS is or could be "windows" based, the only thing you could potentially say about them is maybe something visually is the same. I'm not a Mac fanboy either. Maybe I missed some sarcasm in there though? :D :D
I run an older version and mine still seems pretty virus free. I do follow basic safe practices and do not open e-mails I do not recognize. Mac is also very easy to delete junk your hard drive seems to collect while on-line, PC's seem to retain a lot of on-line content even when you clear your history and cookies. Mac has a reset Safari that cleans the hard drive very well.
Take firefox for example. If you tell it to clean all of your history, why wouldn't it clean all of it for one OS but not the other? that's very program specific, and it does do the same job across the board. I believe you can download Safari for windows, I bet it has that same reset button. One other issues is that the file system of a windows machine is much different than that of a Mac. Even if you delete something in windows, it's still retrievable until something(or many things) have been rewritten/written to the hard drive that overwrite it's old "space". Things like this is why NTFS needs to be defrag'd weekly and optimized monthly. I recommend a few programs for those windows users: ccleaner and recuva. When you install either, be sure to uncheck the box to install whatever toolbar(similar to the adobe installer)
Gates designed Windows to be spied on and hacked.
I believe i've heard that the CIA asked that windows build backdoors into their software. Not sure how true it really is, but i wouldn't put it past me. Time to go put on my tin foil hat though. :P hahahhah