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• Tuesday, November 6, 2007 10:07 PM

  Cheaper?

  There are several emails out there that address the fallacies in the original article. I'll leave them alone. Every time I hear this whole security thing though, I'm reminded of the old statistic we used to hear to encourage us to wear our seatbelts. It went something like this: 80% of all car accidents occur within 20 miles of home.

  Duh. 80% of the driving you do is within 20 miles of home. Sheesh.

  But if the overwhelming majority of viruses attack PCs, wait, when you stop and think about it, they're all PCs. Let me re-phrase, if the overwhelming of viruses attack Windows-based PCs (c'mon Mac fans, you have Intel processors, hard drives and graphics cards and monitors made by the same manufacturers, and probably the RAM, too, most of which are made in the People's Republic of China), it's because the overwhelming number of PCs run Windows.

  If you're writing viruses, you want the biggest bang for your buck so you go after Windows.

  My own personal experience? I've never had a virus infect my PC in over 20 years of using Windows/DOS-based systems. Lost one hard drive, but that was a hardware failure, not an OS failure. Crashes? Never happen on my PCs. I do mostly run-of-the-mill stuff on my work PC, but at home do lots of photo and video editing for personal stuff.

  I dunno. I just never bought the "Macs are better for graphics and video" argument, and I've never had any problems doing that kind of work on a Windows machine.

  Am I just lucky?

  —cwall99 Read cwall99's other letters
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