American Nervoso wrote:
How many here know of at least one friend or family member who is always clogging up their PC and needs our help? Then when you get there it's full of spyware, adware, malware, viruses.
A good few years ago I'd have agreed with this but now, not so much. I'm still the go-to tech support guy for a lot of people I know but I honestly can't remember the last time I had to clean something off a PC.
American Nervoso wrote:
I don't have a virus checker or firewall on my Mac, but wouldn't dream of not being protected on a PC - how long would it take before my machine was riddled with bogus programs? Not long, I'd wager.
I don't agree with this either. Partly because it's simply a lot harder than it used to be to get infected and partly because you're not the kind of idiot to do things that would likely infect you (you're a completely different kind of idiot is what I'm saying). And certainly the days of running a separate firewall programme are well over; I can't even remember how long it's been since I've had something like ZoneAlarm installed.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not trying to say that, for a lot of different reasons, you haven't got a higher chance of picking something up running Windows than OS X because generally speaking that is true. But the kind of situation you're talking about where it's a near guarantee and horrible shit was running rampant really hasn't been true for a long, long time on the Windows side of the fence.