Is This a PC Manifested Myth?

[stepnw1f]

"My first experience with viruses was with a mac."

I have read this statement on the internet twice and heard an IT worker at work spout the same exact line. I find the repetition of this claim similiar to the type of repetitious paroting by the right wing in political debates.

After having a MAC for over 10 years I have YET TO EXPERIENCE a virus on either OS 9 or OSX.

Has anyone else encountered the same statement from PC people? I believe it's bullshit!

[reprobate]

1. Agree 100%. I'm a newcomer to Macs....under two years now, but have

yet to encounter any malware.

In particular the absence of adware and spyware are enought for me to justify the switch.

Of course, those who must run windoze on the intel macs will run into this problem. For myself, not running any windoze only apps, I'll leave Gates' Folly to those who feel they must. The smartest thing they could do is just simply NOT access the internet while in windoze. That would avoid the problem.

[stepnw1f]

2. I Look Forward to Playing Some PC Games

on my new Mac. I hope to get the new 2 ghz Quad Tower Pro Mac. Inside I hope to have a ATI 512 mb video card for 3D modeling, texturing and matt painting. My line of work and hobby is processor intensive. I can't wait!

[alfredo]

3. I've been using a Mac since Mac II, not once did I

experience a virus. There was the QuickTime auto start worm, but all you needed to do was turn off the auto start function.

[onehandle]

4. Never heard that one.

I've only found one virus on a Mac ever. It was in Microsoft Word file that I received from a Windows user and was only dangerous to PCs.

[AlCzervik]

5. the last virus i had was on a pc, since i've owned a mac i've 0

problems.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

6. I've had apples for almost 10 years.

Never a single virus.

[Ezlivin]

7. I've been using Macs since 1985 and have never had a single virus

I'll bet that the person who wrote they'd had a "virus" didn't know what a virus is and probably thought they were using a Mac because it had a mouse.

I can recall when the Mac came out and PC folks were telling us that a Graphical User Interface (GUI) was inferior to the Command Line Interface then in vogue. Oh, and green type on a black screen was so much better.

It's unfortunate that we live in a PC-dominated world; I often have to answer questions for people having problems with their PCs, even though I run my business on Macs exclusively (I run XP in Parallels on my Power Mac), since I "know" computers I'm pressed into service to aid them. I've built PCs from the ground up and have the technical knowledge to run and repair them, but I avoid them as much as possible. I can't wait to update my wife's Dell to a Mac running Parallels (all she needs is QuickBooks on the PC side).

[leftofthedial]

8. Macs since day 1--5 of them in all

My first personal computer was an Apple II.

Never a virus, except ones embedded in Xcel macros (my old company's CFO had a nasty Dell laptop--no telling where it had been).

[cadmium]

10. I had several on an Mac LC

I picked them up with a disc from work. We had an office with about 10 Macs in 1992 or 1993. Appletalk never worked very well and we swapped discs promiscuously. No virus was a killer but we had dozens of them with the effect of slowing down all the computers. We had to debug them all individually. ]

Haven't had a virus since. I have a new Intel powered Mac Book Pro that hasnt' had problem yet. I dont run an antivirus program. Is that a concern?

[Richard Steele]

9. Even less than a "myth", it's just utter BULLSHIT. PC-fan fantasy.

Your "first experience with a virus" came via a MAC?

PFT~! Maybe.... if your PC was crippled, and you used your Mac
to get online and diagnose/cure it of the virus it had!


When someone says that, just look them in the eye
and say, "That never happened".
Then move on. Because it didn't.