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RUSH: David, Spotswood, New Jersey. Welcome to the EIB Network. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hello, Rush. It\u2019s a pleasure to talk with you.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you very much, sir.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I\u2019m a retired engineer. I\u2019ve been working on Windows products for, well, back since the DOS days. I\u2019ve also been fighting viruses. I\u2019m now in retirement and servicing quite a few machines that friends and relatives have.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Many of them are touched by viruses. So I\u2019m just wondering, what makes…?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Do you really want to know?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You want to know why Windows is more vulnerable to viruses than Macintosh?<\/p>\n

CALLER: That is my question.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay, there\u2019s three things. Windows, in terms of security and the way it\u2019s written, is inferior to Macintosh.<\/p>\n

CALLER: (laughing)<\/p>\n

RUSH: Number two, Bill Gates is more despised than Steve Jobs.<\/p>\n

CALLER: (laughing)<\/p>\n

RUSH: Number three — and for the longest time, this was the number one reason — there aren\u2019t that many Macs to mess with. The hackers, even if they did succeed in infiltrating a Mac, still weren\u2019t affecting that many people as opposed to how many people\u2019s lives they could screw up with a Windows virus. Now, as the Mac market share has crept up, there have been far more attempts to attack the Mac.<\/p>\n

The primary vulnerability for the Macintosh is via Java, and there have been a couple of Trojan horses and real problems in the Macintosh via Java and the Java applet for the past couple of months. But the Macintosh — and I stand to be corrected. When I start talking about this, there are aficionados of both who really get ticked off if they hear something they think is wrong. So I\u2019m not trying to be wrong about this.<\/p>\n

But I\u2019ve asked the same question you have to people who have infinitely more knowledge of operating systems than I do, and I have been told that it\u2019s just much tougher to penetrate the Mac system, the OS, than it is Windows. It\u2019s just harder. I think one of the reasons why is that there are fewer users. You gotta understand, there are so many people using Windows that don\u2019t even know what they\u2019re doing. They\u2019re creating vulnerabilities. They\u2019re not putting virus detectors on the systems; they maybe don\u2019t even know what they are. Windows has been vulnerable because it\u2019s so big and so massive.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Mmm-hmm.<\/p>\n

RUSH: But even given all that, I have been told that the Mac OS is just a little bit more secure.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I see.<\/p>\n

RUSH: And it has been less of a target.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah, I —<\/p>\n

RUSH: But now that Jobs is gone, Apple is hated more than Gates, and so is being targeted for a whole lot of bad stuff.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Mmm-hmm. The operating systems, I know… Well, I don\u2019t know if the Mac is easier to work with. I hear a lot about how its user interface may be more user friendly.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Well, it\u2019s just that it\u2019s what you learned on. You learned on DOS.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes.<\/p>\n

RUSH: So you learned on the command line.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, you can do command line on Mac if you want. They got a program called Terminal. If you want to operate it on the command line, you can. You know, Windows is a copy of Macintosh, which is a copy of Xerox.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I see.<\/p>\n

RUSH: It all depends what you learn on. I learned on a Macintosh. That\u2019s why I like the iPhone. Anything compatible. I had a BlackBerry once and I could never sync it. I could never sync the contacts and stuff. It just wouldn\u2019t sync with my desktop computer. But to each his own on this stuff. People have their loyalties to each. Once you learn either system, you\u2019ll swear by it. I just have found that Windows users who switch marvel at the intuitiveness of the Mac system that\u2019s not present in Windows.<\/p>\n

But you sound like you\u2019ve had enough experience that you shouldn\u2019t have any trouble switching over at all. I do think you could do both. You get a Macintosh now, by the way, and you can run Windows on it, on a separate desktop, on the same computer. You can run Windows two different ways, a virtual version called Parallels. You can get Boot Camp and run it straight off the processor. So if you get a Mac, you\u2019re covered. You can run both on the thing. It\u2019s something you might want to consider.<\/p>\n

David, I appreciate the call. Thanks much.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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