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[Aklyon]

Cue the thread derailing into mac peeps saying:
'we no has virusses!'

Says the people that get into the news everytime they have one.

[Mr. Palau]

's true in this case : it says Flame attacks Windows.

Yeah Flame exploits vulenarbilities in the Windows OS. Which may more may not also be in Mac OS. Likely not, just because they are built deffrintely.

[RedWarrior0]

Doesn't matter, anyways. All the AV companies have fixes already. The nature of its programming means that it was hard to discover "initially", but once discovered, easily found and treated.

[10ebbor10]

Cue the thread derailing into mac peeps saying:
'we no has virusses!'

Nor have they any decent antivirus infrastructure / compagnies working on them. In fact, chances are goof it won't be long before the increasing popularity of mac combined with it's inadequate defenses causes an avalanche of Mac viruses.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

Increasing popularity of Macintosh? Are you feeling alright?

[Skyrunner]

It's true, though. :/

[MaximumZero]

It's true, though. :/

Yep. Mac is looking at about 4% of marketshare, as opposed to the 2% they had a couple years ago. That's a pretty big jump.

[Sheb]

Only? Even if you only look at PC, and not at servers? I know it's a biased sample, but out of all my university friends, something like 50% have Macs.

[Sheb]

Probably more in the 10% range actually. Not including the iOS systems.

So not a lot yet, but since they're defenceless, generally richer and not that computer-minded people, they're going to become a juicer and juicer target.

[Pnx]

Probably more in the 10% range actually. Not including the iOS systems.

So not a lot yet, but since they're defenceless, generally richer and not that computer-minded people, they're going to become a juicer and juicer target.

That seems to be listing the OS's of mobile phones too... Which actually makes me wonder why the mac share isn't higher.

[miauw62]

Because android is full of win.

[MaximumZero]

Probably more in the 10% range actually. Not including the iOS systems.

So not a lot yet, but since they're defenceless, generally richer and not that computer-minded people, they're going to become a juicer and juicer target.

I was just quoting the internal data that I got on retail marketshare. I would happily post my source...but they'd fire me.

[Sheb]

Who do you work for?

[Aklyon]

Who do you work for?

MZ is the resident HP guy. Not many people here seem to like HP though.

[Sheb]

So HP sold 4% of Macs. :p Dafuq? Anyway, is it for all computers, or only desktop? Most Macs solds are Laptop, from what I've seen.