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The Security Performance between Windows and Mac OS X

February 7th, 2010 Jhon

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According to the report, Apple marketing strategy said that it isn’t exactly right about the security of expensive Mac computer will definitely be higher than the PC.

When I stopped in the front of the Mac store, the salesman would always said Mac will never get the virus from internet. It is all said that there are a lot of viruses which are designed specifically for PC in the networks, therefore Apple users are unlikely to encounter the virus problem. However it is very easy for a hacker to attack your Mac if they determined to enter your system.

A senior security researcher called Ncircle said that if you carefully compared the two different platforms Mac and PC, then you will definitely selected WindowsPC as your choice. Even in the beginning release, MacOSX on the availability of already contains more security problems.

Form the latest survey, when the Apple Mac users under security attacks, they will cost much on the virus attack than WindowsPC users.

In addition, Apple Mac system another reason about the security problem is that Apple fixed cycle is much longer than Microsoft.

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