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there has been a long-standing perception that macs are indeed safer

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than Windows-based pcs with apple even going as far as to create ads saying

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macs don't get pc viruses implying that you're putting your data

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at much greater risk if you aren't on the mac platform

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but how much truth is there to this claim well around the

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2012-2013 timeframe it was estimated that about one-third of the world's

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computers were infected with some sort of malware and when you look at only max

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that number was less than three percent

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well since numbers don't lie max must be safer and a video all done now right

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well it depends on what exactly you mean by

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safer you see while it's true that there are fewer threats out there designed to

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attack macs compared to Windows pcs the

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reason for that might not be what you think

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worldwide just over three quarters of desktop computers run some variant of

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microsoft Windows with macOS 10 a very

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distant second at just over 12 percent market share that means that the simple

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truth is that black hat hackers and

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cyber criminals see more value in targeting Windows

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it's kind of like how you're more likely to see a pickpocket operating in the

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tourist district of a large city compared to in a small town in the

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middle of nowhere and if you go back to the apple claim

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that max don't get pc viruses it's not

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hard to figure out that while it is technically true

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it was clearly designed to mislead

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while Windows and macOS are very different operating systems in terms of

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their underlying code with modern versions of Windows based on the Windows

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nt kernel and macOS instead based on unix there actually isn't anything about

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macOS that makes it inherently

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more secure instead the differences between Windows

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and macOS mean that while malware often

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has to be coded separately for each platform a mac isn't necessarily more

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difficult to attack or less vulnerable than a Windows pc

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so saying that macs don't get pc viruses

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is about as useful as getting a message on a dating app from someone telling you

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that they simply can't catch diseases that only affect cows

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which should somehow make them more appealing but at the end of the day

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does it matter why fewer viruses that

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can infect you exist i mean maybe you should switch to a mac and reduce your

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odds of getting a malware infection simply by playing the numbers well

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there's actually a legitimate argument to be made there

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but here's the thing using a safer platform is no excuse to

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drop your guard while it is true that there are fewer

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exploits out there for mac it's actually much more common these days for the bad

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guys to steal your data by employing social engineering anyway

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social engineering includes tactics like phishing attacks that are designed to

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trick you into giving up your information through compromised websites

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such strategies are independent of what platform you're using so simply by

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paying attention and not clicking on suspect links or downloading

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questionable files you're likely to avoid the worst of the malware out there

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regardless of whether you're a pc or a mac

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it also helps that both microsoft and apple have developed pretty

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comprehensive ways of securing user systems

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and while neither of them is by any means perfect both companies invest

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plenty of resources into finding and patching vulnerabilities usually in a

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pretty timely manner so the bottom line is that if those are your two options

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exercising some caution with how you use your machine and ensuring that you have

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a good anti-malware solution installed is far more likely to be helpful than

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simply choosing a mac just because there isn't

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as much mac specific malware out in the wild and of course if you're really

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paranoid you can always just migrate to a system that doesn't allow you to

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download any programs that aren't part of a vetted app store like a chromebook

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it's just that if you do you might have to give up pirating your favorite games

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