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Roundup Date: Wednesday, August 25, 2004

Mossberg: Dump your Windows machine and get an Apple Macintosh to free yourself of spyware

Mossberg: Dump your Windows machine and get an Apple Macintosh to free yourself of spyware - (View article)
macdailynews.com
"How can you get rid of spyware and how can you avoid it in the first place? One nearly surefire cure is to dump your Windows machine and buy an Apple Macintosh. Almost all spyware is written to run on Windows, and it simply doesn't work on a Mac, even if it gets downloaded to one,' Walt Mossberg writes for The Mossberg Report. "It's possible to write spyware for a Mac and install it on a Mac, but there's little incentive to do so because of the Mac's small market share. Also, [More]