New Toy

**clancelt** · 28th February 06, 04:53 AM

Originally Posted by Jeremiah

Well, just be aware that as Macs rise in popularity hackers will start attacking them too. It's already started happening, and I odubt it will be long before Apple has to build security updating into it's software.

I will say both platforms have their good and bad points, but having worked in a Unix environment for the past 25 years and on the Internet long before 1995 when I could count the number of Windows machines out there on one hand...

I'll stick with the Unix world that Mac has now joined as their threat level has remained pretty much a flat line even when they were a 100% target.

Slipping on flame proof suit now.

Nice iBook Rob! I have never looked back after I bought my Powerbook 3 years ago. It replaced an old Sparcbook that had reached the end of the road. (You think Macs are hard to find software for...geesh)

**mddock58** · 28th February 06, 06:38 AM

Apple has always been aware of security problems, and has been attacked with viruses and such over the years.

It's just that there are more people that don't like, or find more security "holes" in Windows, and when MS tries to fix them, they sometimes create bigger problems.

**Eujeankilt** · 28th February 06, 07:14 AM

Nice machine Rob. I'm setting one of these up for a client later today. It's kind of like a shirt I used to have that said "Some people have to use a PC, I get to use a Mac!"

Dale
Systems Admin for 200+ Macs

**Rob Wright** · 28th February 06, 08:47 AM

It is a nice machine.

So far everything written for Macs have been trojan horses and they all required one to do so many things to gain access to your machine that only the most stupid of people let it happen.

The only problem I see in the future is that they have been making their OS more compatible with windows based applications so its buggier than one would expect from apple, but it fits my needs perfectly.

Rob