From Apple eNews, June 1, 2006:
It’s really sad that so many people have to be wary about opening email, visiting websites, chatting with presumed “buddies,” or downloading music, photos, movies or other files over the Internet.
No one should have to zealously guard their computers against spyware, viruses, trojan horses, or various other types of malware. Or run a bewildering assortment of (quickly obsolete) virus-protection apps. And no one should have to run a computer to a nearby computer store, so it can be “cleaned” on a routine basis.
Do you know why people put up with that? If their cars didn’t drive where they wanted to go; their TVs didn’t play what they wanted to watch; or their phones didn’t connect to the party they called, how long would they keep using them?
Apple provides more info online about Mac’s lack of viruses here.
By the end of 2005, there were 114,000 known viruses for PCs. In March 2006 alone, there were 850 new threats detected against Windows. Zero for Mac. While no computer connected to the Internet will ever be 100% immune from attack, Mac OS X has helped the Mac keep its clean bill of health with a superior UNIX foundation and security features that go above and beyond the norm for PCs. When you get a Mac, only your enthusiasm is contagious. – Apple’s “114,000 viruses? Not on a Mac.” webpage.
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MacDailyNews Take: Finally, Apple’s gloves are off. Let’s go!
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110 baud acoustic-coupling modems. That’s as far back as I go. I’m in diapers compared to shadowself.
@Static Mesh:”New kind of virus, extortionware.”
—> Yeah, just heard about that. I have to given them credit for their level of sophistication though.
It burns!!!!:
“A lot of hackers have never HEARD of a Mac or how secure their design is. But now, if they are on Apple’s mailing list, they will get taunts like these.”
Yes, all those hackers who never heard of a Mac yet somehow manage to find themselves on Apple’s mailing list…
“#8. More fun with photos.”
As a professional photographer let me just say. . .
It’s just more fun . . . period!!!
Sound like you are working in the creative field. What do you do? Do you have a web site?
Ahh not, left it long go. Can’t even draw worth a darn anymore.
But creative in a different way, improving my real estate so it’s worth more and decorating my boat with “bow bunnies”
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The Mac forced me to apply myself elsewhere to make more money.
Thank god for Apple I guess now.
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Returned to be a big fanboi, god I’m old.
Yeah, but will Winblows readers read it? Can they read at all? That’s 97 hits from the Mac search link and 50,533 returned from ‘Search Microsoft.com! LOL.
If you want a safe World Cup Tracker, the <a href=”http://www.members.optusnet.com.au/hinx/wc2006guide/”>Ultimate Couch Potato World Cup 2006 Guide</i> was made on a Mac (requires Excel) and is better than any tracker made on Winblows.
And still Apple market share falls…
“The Radius Pivot. It was pretty cool. As I recall it had a mercury switch that sensed rotation to trigger the portrait to landscape change or back.”
Hm, I have still one in working condition, attached to my 15 years old IIci working as mail server in the home office. Somebody mentioned $5000 for IIfx, well, IIci (5 MB RAM, 120 MB hard drive) with Radius Pivot cost me that much.
Was hoping the new Apple metal displays would pivot with some neat special effects, like the screen ‘pouring’ into the new position.
Who cares what Apple says in an emailed “news” propaganda sheet to the party faithful? What Windows user would read that? What Windows user even cares? What Windows user would believe the no-virus claims, anyway?
And MacDailyNews says, “Finally, Apple’s gloves are off. Let’s go!”
Oh, please. It’s a frickin’ house organ.
Get Real – so true.
Apple writes this stuff to keep the faithful from defecting over to Windows.
It does not help Apple to on one hand to say Windows is full of viruses then the next thing rig Apple computers to run Windows. If Windows sucks why let it on a Mac?
Comment that stuck with me most from a friend that put Windows on his Mac: “Sheesh – I didn´t realize how fast Windows was compared to OSX.”
18 futura medium flush left
Macs rule, M$ sucks
36 futura medium bold on 33.6 picas flush left
Underwood goes way of Studebaker
Those who keep saying they’re preaching to the choir: iPOD USERS get the Apple eNews… that’s a potentially big market. DUH!
Now, hopefully the editor of Macworld got the e-mail. I was never so disappointed in a magazine as I was of the Macworld that came yesterday. First their editor writes a “the sky is falling” editorial, telling me to run VIRUS software on my Mac and that things are just SOOOooo bad right now. Then I have to flip through several pages of virus checker software reviews, etc. My renewal was up, and it clinched it: I’m not renewing. It’s fine to put the reviews and things in. But when the EDITOR of Macworld is fueling the “Macs don’t have viruses because of low market share” myth, you’ve lost my respect.
Who cares what Apple says in an emailed “news” propaganda sheet to the party faithful?
Uhm, it’s not just in an email. You did read the thread, didn’t you?
What Windows user would read that? What Windows user even cares?
Ladies and gentlemen, the operational definition of “Stockholm syndrome”.
What Windows user would believe the no-virus claims, anyway?
Never mind that pesky thing called reality, I have my illusion to keep up! Macs get viruses tooooo, right? In other words, this is Bizarro-world justification for continuing discomfort. It’s like the slave saying to the free man, “Massa tells me the world is so bad out there. How can you handle it?”
Let the TV commercials tell the Virus story now!
We want more TV exposure–OSX! iLife!
i hate to bust all your bubbles – i was windows only now have a mac, too. i never had a virus on my windows computer. neither have my parents.
sure its more possible to get it with a windows computer, but if you have a firewall and virus software and don´t use internet explorer (i use firefox – it is good at stopping stuff coming to one´s computer) it is not going to happen.
the virus thing ain´t a reason to switch to macs…sorry guys.
Even most PC users will contend that Windows is awful. The problem is that they think there isn’t an alternative.
This is a good start, but it needs to be shouted from the rooftops!
DJ, ah, but do you know *exactly* how many points per inch are in type specs? (Almost everyone always assumes the approximate 72 points per inch is exact. It’s very close, but not exact.) Unless you’re spec’ing type thats two or more inches tall it probably doen’t matter — 72 points per inch is fine.
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110 baud (the TTY33 standard)… that was OK. It was much better than the Baudot “standards” of 50 and 75 baud which it effectively replaced. I was happy when I could do 300 baud at half duplex, and it usually kept up with my typing.
Oh yes, remembering the days of asynchronous connections. That’s why was able to use the Mac Plus to front end that Cray. I could hook it up directly using the RS-422 capable connection (synchronous and long distance communications capable) on the back. All the IBM clowns (er, I mean clones) at the time had RS-232 connections (typically asynchronous capable only and the synchonous variants weren’t stable enough for long distance, “high speed” connections) or some weird proprietary setup.
An acoustic coupled modem with an RS-232 cable still sits on my desk today. Don’t, use it, but it sits there in an attempt to remind me that 8 Mbps at home and an OC-3 at work really aren’t THAT slow. (Doesn’t really work. I still complain when I have to wait for multi gigabyte files to transfer at work!)
Shadowself said: DJ, ah, but do you know *exactly* how many points per inch are in type specs?
Ooo, ooo! Mr. Kotter! I know. I know! 72.27!
Shadowself said: “Back in the day before punch cards caught on, my first real computer task was decoding computer punch tape. Then we got the new fangled keypunch machine with those neat new cards!”
Whippersnapper!
I had to wind up paper punch tapes for Linotype machines. Molten lead!
Wire stories were punched onto the half-inch-wide paper as it unravelled from a huge two-foot diameter spool of yellow half-inch-wide paper feeding through the punch mechanism. Each story was separated by a punched-hole number that could be read by hooman beans. Each story on tape had to be torn from the following story, and wound up on a clockwork wheel with four pegs like a film take-up spool in a camera. So don’t give me none of them modern-as-tomorrow punch-card yarns.
Kids today. Don’t know nuttin.
If someone says they were there the day the first Gutenberg press was running I’m gonna scream. ; )
>@shadowself: “An acoustic coupled modem with an RS-232 cable still sits on my desk today. Don’t, use it, but it sits there in an attempt to remind me that 8 Mbps at home and an OC-3 at work really aren’t THAT slow. (Doesn’t really work. I still complain when I have to wait for multi gigabyte files to transfer at work!)
—->Yeah, I have to remind myself to….Running 8 Mbps at home as well. I could READ faster than 110 could display – that goes for 300 too. The iPod generation is spoiled rotten
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>No virus here:
You should market your idea and then retire. Just think of all the millions of Windows users you could save who already have viruses, and you could also sell your idea to businesses who have already lost billions due to down time and repair.
Oh wait. Microsoft beat you to it. They’re coming out with their own security software to sell.
Funny thing though, the XP upgrade box I have from 4 years ago already states that XP is dependable and secure. And I don’t see any instructions about using a firewall, security software, or using a third party browser in place of the pre-bundled Internet Explorer.
Please. Don’t even pretend to know what you are talking about.
“The newbies on computers were horrible designers.”
The symptom of that disease is something I call “font vomit.”
Multiple typefaces: throw in San Francisco, Nuptial, and Bodoni together for no apparent reason. Throw in some dingbats and webdings because they are cute. Widows, orphans, accidental bleeds, PMS 185 at 20% with orange type, no gutters, “random italicized headers” with “lots” of “quotes”. Drop shadows on all graphic elements, photos and copy. The boss bought his assistant a computer and loaded it with Publisher and FrontPage.
Why do they do it? Because they can. Why pay a pro when my assistant can churn out our brochures?
Some time in the future…
“Dad, what’s a computer virus? They were talking about it in school today.”
“Oh, those are bad programs for computers. They do bad things to computers.”
“What happened to them?”
“People got fed up and companies got fed up, so everyone switched from Vista to a Mac.”
“What’s a Vista?”
“Oh, that was an operating system from Microsoft.”
“Microsoft?”
“Oh that’s right–they changed their name to XBox.”
“Ok, I know–they make games for Nintendo.”