“How safe is your computer? You may not know it, but here’s a group of malicious, devious people out there who get their kicks wreaking havoc on vulnerable computers,” Al Gibes writes for The Las Vegas Review-Journal. “Every personal computer is a potential target, but there are some simple steps you can take to make it harder for the viruses, worms, spam and other bugaboos to weasel their way into your system and network.”

“I recently joined the world of Windows XP, although I still do the majority of my home and office computing on Apple Macintosh machines. My Macs are much smaller targets for viruses and other demons, as the authors of these programs generally go for the bigger, easier target, machines running Windows, which continue to hold more than 90 percent of the market share,” Gibes writes.

MacDailyNews Take: If by “generally,” Gibes means that the malicious software authors have not yet once sucessfully attacked Mac OS X with a virus in over 5 years and counting, then he is correct. Otherwise, he is “generally” misleading his readership by not pointing out that there are zero, none, nada, zilch Mac OS X viruses and, with over 20 million users, Mac OS X is hardly an obscure platform. Mac OS X is not secure because there are less users compared to Windows. Mac OS X is simply secure.

Gibes continues with ways to try to protect a Windows PC on the Internet in his full article here.

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