Friday, June 17, 2005
Now that you've been through another Microsoft Patch Tuesday
Does it feel like you never get to use your computer, in between spyware scans, antivirus updates, and operating system patches?
If so, you're probably doing it right.
On my own computers I find that the overhead of keeping them protected is a pain.
There's no good answer, not for a general-purpose computer. Right now it's less work to keep a Mac secure than to protect a Windows machine. But there's nothing in the Mac to protect you against spyware that you install yourself, after being fooled by a misleading "license agreement". So far the spyware scum haven't discovered the Mac market. When they do things will get worse.
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If so, you're probably doing it right.
On my own computers I find that the overhead of keeping them protected is a pain.
There's no good answer, not for a general-purpose computer. Right now it's less work to keep a Mac secure than to protect a Windows machine. But there's nothing in the Mac to protect you against spyware that you install yourself, after being fooled by a misleading "license agreement". So far the spyware scum haven't discovered the Mac market. When they do things will get worse.
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