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i am really sick of ignorant people saying that the Mac OS is a more secured operating system because there are no or very few virus. Yes, granted most of these idiots who state such craps are non-techies and have no clue what they are talking about.just last week, we conducted a class in one of the countries in the neighbourhood. these was, obviously, a security class and the students in the class (should) obviously have basic technical (security) knowledge and yet they asked why does computer viruses not attack Mac machines. i have never seen Nagy put up such a diplomatic act of answering such questions.going back in time. 6 weeks ago, a scrawny looking and obviously brainless news anchor lady in the singapore morning news magazine show was bragging about how cool her new Mac laptop was . she told her co-host how she struggled between a Windows based OS laptop and a Mac laptop, and finally decided on the Mac because Mac will not be infected by any computer virus. this was on national TV. my entire day was messed up!and then, couple of hours ago, i was on an aircraft going to seoul to attend POC. i was reading Business Week article titled " Can Apple Spoil Microsoft's Day?" in that article, it was stated that to throw a wet blanket on Windows 7 launch, "Apple plans to hit those computer buyers with advertising aimed at luring them to Macs. It will make the case that Macs are less susceptible to viruses and are best suited to its popular iPods and iPhones."this is horrendous. all these marketing guys/gals who have no idea what they are talking about and yet many stupid enough people buy into all these mumbo jumbo.there are primarily 2 reasons why Windows based PCs are more prone to virus attacks. the very first computer virus was written on DOS (disk operating system) which Windows is based on and there is that legacy there. secondly Windows is found in over 90% of the PCs in this world and why would a virus writer want to create a virus that has no impact. duh....really this Mac is more secured bullshit needs to stop.