dhbailey wrote:
Lawrence David Eden wrote:
I wrote to the head of the computer sciences center at University of
Maryland to get his opinion as to what machine to buy. Some of you may be
interested in his reply:
"Why on earth would you want to subject her to the horrors that Windows-using students are subjected to here? I spend almost all my time trying to help them recover from Internet attacks, and more and more of them are having to reformat their hard drives and reinstall the operating system (which leaves them no less susceptible to repeat performances unless they take the mass of security steps that I almost never have time to go over with them in detail.
Unless she HAS to get a PC (and I can't think of a single reason why a freshman would be that committed to one of the departments that requires them) she ought to get a Mac. Period."
As a Mac user, (Macher) I don't have to deal with the virus issue. How do
PC mavens protect themselves from the deluge of attacks on their OS?
Larry
Install an antivirus program and that's that.
As well as follow some sound computing practices, such as never opening attachments you haven't solicited, even when they appear to come from friends or relatives.
If that person convinces enough people to buy Macs, then there'll be a big enough Mac user market that he'll have to be dealing with viruses over there, as well as on windows machines.
It's like anything -- use it wisely, invest in tools to protect yourself (they're not that expensive) and you're fine.
-- Robert Patterson
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