Norton Security

obgraham wrote:

And for those touting "i" stuff, yeah, they to can get virus's, keyloggers, malware and are not "exempt" and you shouldn't throw rocks at non "i" products because some day, one of those rocks may bounce back and smash your "i" products glass house..

It's not a question of "touting", we all know stuff can happen. I can say, however, that after over 25 years on Windows stuff, I switched to Mac. Virtually all the issues I had with Win -- slow startups, hangups on shutdown, browser incompatibility, progressively slower machinery, and nefarious junk being attached to my computer -- all went away, once I got past the MS mindsets and learned the Apple mindsets.

Will it last? -- who knows?

I have had well over 30 yrs of PC/Windows/DOS/NT and many older OSs "experience" than I care to list.

In all of that time, I have only twice been hit by a virus/malware. Have spent many yrs of my life being online or having some sort of online connection as part of my job. I think getting hit twice in 30 yrs using non "i" products is pretty reasonable and should be expected..

Just because you bought into the "i" thing doesn't mean you will make it through your entire life without getting hit by a virus/malware.. Lots of online "i" forums with same issue with virus/malware issues..

You can bury your head in the sand, run and hide but eventually luck will run out on you as long as you have your "i" product attached to the wobbly web.

For many of us doing real work with real companies, we can't duck and run or hide our head in the sand because well over 95% of the worlds softwares runs exclusively on a PC platform using some form of Windows..

Pretty much everything you use or buy has been touched by a process that was exclusively run on a MS software platform..

Do you bank?

Use a ATM?

Have you been to a DR?

Hospital?

How about your electric Co?

Water bill?

Grocery store?

Gas station?

Own a car?

All of the above and more will be using a MS windows platform somewhere in their business..

Those are just a few examples of what IS "running the world"..

On edit..

It is also worthwhile to mention the "i" company DOESN'T make/sell "server hardware", nor do they make "server software"..

Without servers, your "i" products would be 99.9% useless and there would not be any such thing as "the Internet"..

You should be thanking the Non "i" products for at least the fact that you can "connect" to the Internet..