Care to elaborate? I try to keep up on the latest exploits, but I just skimmed the security section of the MacInTouch site and found only the DHS problem, which seems to require physical access to the machine. What am I missing?
Don't want to start any arguments or debates or anything, but with the most recent completed year (2014)
they took the top spot in GFI's vulnerability counts. Just in the news a week ago was
this article on Reg. There are frequently articles about various things that affect Macs, more often than one would think for no more of them than what there are. Funny thing is, Mac sites are some of the last to ever report an issue (you hafta get outta the circle some).
Macs have had a lack of market share to keep them from being a target previously. As they become more popular and affordable, more issues will continue to arise. As of now, they command almost 6% of the estimated 10 billion desktop computers in operation today, which is as high as they have ever been and they are growing rapidly. Many exploits coming out now are attacking Java and Flash and other cross-OS components and are able to infect Windows Linux and Mac.
With Windows you end up with more available support tools and methods, as well as more security and prevention methods. I just don't see the attraction with spending more now to buy something that will cost more later too (in both support cost and aggravation). As someone who has followed the trends for a living for the past 25 years, it just seems to be going a bad direction for the general user...
All that being said, Macs are great computers and their software has many beneficial uses in several industries and hobby fields; there are many reasons to own one (I do, but I use it only for the tasks that require it). But to go buy one simply to escape the crapware installed on the average home desktop PC is a little over the top (cost and hassle). It is much simpler and less expensive to purchase a business model from the manufacturer without all that stuff, or run a simple free program like pcdecrapifier. There is no way I'd advise anyone to just be willy-nilly surfing the web on a Mac.
I look at it sort of like having more than one hammer. Some hammers can be used for all sorts of things, some hammers are for a specific function and shouldn't be used for many things. Neither is better, it is just what are each better suited for...
