Mossberg: Dump your Windows machine and get an Apple Macintosh to free yourself of spyware
Wednesday, August 25, 2004 - 12:20 PM EDT"How can you get rid of spyware and how can you avoid it in the first place? One nearly surefire cure is to dump your Windows machine and buy an Apple Macintosh. Almost all spyware is written to run on Windows, and it simply doesn't work on a Mac, even if it gets downloaded to one,' Walt Mossberg writes for The Mossberg Report.
"It's possible to write spyware for a Mac and install it on a Mac, but there's little incentive to do so because of the Mac's small market share. Also, the renegade programmers who concoct spyware rarely are expert in writing Mac programs. Those same factors have spared the Mac from any serious virus attacks. So if you owned a Mac, you'd likely be spyware-free," Mossberg writes.
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Small market share is responsible for the lack of Spyware? Hmmm, I don't think so. Perhaps it's because OS X is robust, and spyware has nowhere to hide. Can it install into /System? No, not unless you enter your password (which you are highly unlikely to do). Can it install into /Library? No, for the same reason above. Can it install into /Users/youraccount? It could, but what can it do from inside there?
And they're the only places that Spyware can possible hide. So the fact that Apple has a small market share has nothing to do with the fact that Spyware doesn't exist.
More likely, the fact that Windows is a piece of shit and has a 'Registry' that allows anything to install anywhere. No admin protection at all? Yes, another reason.
Blimey, when are people gonna wake up and ditch Microshit?