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To: Dave Budde who wrote (54827)	7/21/2006 12:16:27 AM
From: Cogito	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 213172

>>Windows can be stable and secure. It's not that way out of the box and most people don't know how to set it up. But all you need to do is turn on your firewall, don't click any links or open email from people you don't know. Don't download and run executable files that you don't know anything about. Turn off VB scripting in any apps that support it. Setup your router to use WPA and only let your machines access that router using access control lists and you're good to go. I've never seen a single security problem with XP when following the above.<< Dave - Well for heaven's sake. OS X is stable and secure out of the box. As an operating system should be. As far as I'm concerned, that should be the end of the argument. If you connect a Windows machine, using the standard configuration, to the Internet, it will be compromised within twelve minutes on average. I know of a company that had more than thirty Macs on their network, each with a public, routable IP address, and no firewall in front of them. They had NO problems running in this configuration for more than a year. My consulting company was only able to convince them to get a firewall after they bought another small firm, someone brought in a Windows machine, and it was so badly infected after thirty minutes that their whole network had slowed to a crawl. - Allen

To: Dave Budde who wrote (54827)	7/21/2006 3:19:45 PM
From: Doren	Respond to of 213172

But all you need to do is turn on your firewall, don't click any links or open email from people you don't know. Don't download and run executable files that you don't know anything about. Turn off VB scripting in any apps that support it. Setup your router to use WPA and only let your machines access that router using access control lists and you're good to go. Are you sure that's "All you have to do?" That's hysterical. Tell that to my brother and you've sold him a Mac. I'm not sure that would stop spyware either. I think you still need to buy some antivirus software and download spyware removal tools. Here's what you have to do on a Mac. Nothing. And there are tons of other stuff. Partitioning. Dual booting. Better usability. Stabilty is not a HUGE problem on PCs like it used to be but Macs are still more stable. How about this: Install a hard drive on your own computer without permission from Microsoft. WOAH!