Friday, August 20, 2010

Which is more virus prone: Apple Computers or Microsoft Computers?

By Microsoft Computers I mean computers that use Windows.



Which is more virus prone: Apple Computers or Microsoft Computers?norton ghost



Microsoft Computers.



Apple's main core is built upon Unix, which is much more secure than what Windows is built upon.



Which is more virus prone: Apple Computers or Microsoft Computers?software



Yeah I've always heard that PC's (comps running Windows) have 99% of viruses directed at em. I use Vista and at the moment am researching on how to keep it safe, there are ways. Both have their flaws but I've always heard that Mac's are safer...
It would definitely Micrsoft operating systems. This is due to the massive amounts of users and the security holes in most of the Windows OS'
obviously microsoft only windows. windows supports .exe files and virus are running on .exe files so microsoft computers are more risky
Apple or MAC computers use a system entirely different from windows...



Windows utilizes the use of a ''Registry'' which is something like a big log book which contains all the addresses of each file and which program uses them.



MAC on the other hand uses multiple files instead so even if a virus deletes a file, the system will still function.



Windows is more prone because once it's security is breached, one flick at the registry and it's all gone. Also, there are hundreds of thousands or millions of viruses for windows and only a few known for apple computers...
both are equally prone to viruses. The only difference is that there are more people actively looking for loopholes in the Microsoft system, and very few looking for loopholes in Apple's system.

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