fraidy cat tech columnists
Posted by joy
Whenever I read, John Fried’s tech column in the Inquirer [real cities reg required], I just get to wondering if he’s afraid of actually advising someone to use a Mac since he always has to end his if you switch to a Mac answer with this….
The vast majority of virus and spyware attacks are on Windows. But you should still protect your PowerBook with a firewall, an antivirus program and antispyware software.
I mean, I just wonder how many of my readers are using a Mac based antivirus program and Mac based antispyware program???
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April 16th, 2005 at 10:10 pm
Actually, I am. It makes perfect sense to; I share the same email, files etc with a Windows system as well. Therefore I’d like early warning on such stuff.
I believe it to be a mere matter of time before some halfway-decent worm or virus attempt is made on/for the Mac. Nothing rules it out, mind; no OS can be provably demonstrated to be secure against such attacks. At that time said journalist’s attitude will be anything other than mere paranoia.