Article posted on Dec 02
Okay, so about a year ago I made the big move. I went from windows to Mac. Of course, I kept my windows laptop on my desktop as well, so I could use it to do “all of the stuff I couldn’t on a Mac.” I also loaded up Parallels, for the same purpose. But all in all, I have to say that I have liked the change, and really don’t look back.
But unfortunately it appears that enough of us are making that move that the folks writing viruses are starting to take note. In a BBC New article put out earlier today, they refer to an item on Apple’s support discussion boards from November, where Apple suggests the use of one of three flavors of anti virus for your Mac.
Now, to what extent this is just a suggestion of “best practice” in order to be safe rather than sorry, or to what extent there is real, significant threat and we should be worried is a bit unclear. I do think it is a bit of a wakeup call though to us Mac users:
There are far fewer plugins for Entourage than for Outlook. Why? Because far fewer people use Entourage than Outlook… Developers and companies put their efforts where they can get the most bang for the buck. There are also far fewer viruses targeting Entourage for the very same reason. The same is true of the OS itself. As OS X gains more users it will have more people trying to prey on those users.
I guess the only way to really be safe is to be on something no one else is… Now wherre did I put that old Bee OS CD? 
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