I have to disagree with this. Instead of promoting another system, now with similiar architecture, end-users need to gain some education. I'm sure that this is not uncommon for IT Professionals, but I've never had a trojan or virus on any of my home computers (Michelangelo and some very early ones e...

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Sellouts.. switching to a mac will -not- render you more secure. That, and theres the fact that the 'inexpensive' mac computers arent cheap at all....

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Sophos makes a pretty decent product. That said, recommending switching to a Mac simply because it presently has a smaller marketshare is not the greatest advice to give. May as well simply say switch to Linux, or BSD for that matter. Reality of it is that home users simply need to educate themselve...

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In my humble opinion the platform is not the main issue, user behaviour is a lot higher on the list. When remembering the story of Troy right, the people there let in what they believed was a horse instead of a team of warriors. In the same way trojans hide in what seem to be harmless tools, utiliti...

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That paper regarding home users buy mac's just for security purpose alone is probably the most ignorant thing a consumer can do for themselves. One, mac's always tend to cost more, two, if everyone bought macs, then security will be focused on them, three, everyone would have to get compatible softw...

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Contrary to what the above comments indicate, OS market share has very little do do with why Microsoft systems are so vulnerable to malware. The article doesn't even mention OS market share as it shouldn't....

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My two neighbors are downloading from 50 to 90 megs of various kernel "fixes" every month for their Macs. Why would Sophos think that that these continual "fixes" are any better? Ten to one they're to stop vatious attacks on the Mac op system. One guy cries all the time about his Hughs Net "Fair ...

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First, the Architecture is irrelevant, x86, PPC, Sparc, 32bit, 64bit, etc. You consider an Architecture based on the requirements of your computational needs ie: engineering, scientifice, GIS, military, Finance, Office work, Gaming, etc.

At issue, is the Operating System (called an OS Platform) ...

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