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Originally Posted by Sylon
PC get attacked more because there ARE more. Hate it or not, but there are more PC's in the world then there are Macs. So why would a hacker attack the minority? Engadget has reported of major holes in the Apple OS, usually brought up at every Blackhat conference there is. Macs are not perfect either people, its just that there are more PC's out there to attack.
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not only are there more PC's in the world, PC's are much more customizable because a lot of it is open source. Thats where hackers write viruses for PCs because its far easier to access the source code of the OS. Its sort of a double edged sword though; where there is open source material, there becomes an abundance of amazing software written for the OS but that also goes for writing viruses for that OS.
Most people who own macs are Older people that dont really know much about computers. Macs are for the computer illiterate because they are so simple. You can do FAR more on a pc than you can on a Mac and thats just fact. Anything a mac can do, a pc can do.