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Re:Mysterious Mac Malware Has Infected Victims for Years by threeseed on Monday July 24, 2017 @07:10PM (#14843582)
This notion existed far before that ad came out.

It's a combination of a few things: (1) why bother investing time and resources for a platform with around 10% of users and (2) OSX has had strong security mechanisms e.g Gatekeeper, XProtect, App Sandbox. Windows 10 is much better but unfortunately not everyone is on that OS yet.

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Re:Mysterious Mac Malware Has Infected Victims for Years by wfunction on Monday July 24, 2017 @07:47PM (#14843783)
> Windows 10 is much better but unfortunately not everyone is on that OS yet.

Implying Windows 8.1 has security problems... what are they?

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Re:Mysterious Mac Malware Has Infected Victims for Years by freehunter on Monday July 24, 2017 @09:30PM (#14844345)
Every OS has security problems, and every new OS incorporates fixes to them. If you're looking for specifics, a quick Google search can help there: http://www.csoonline.com/article/3044089/data-protection/the...
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Re:Mysterious Mac Malware Has Infected Victims for Years by andrewflnr on Tuesday July 25, 2017 @12:07AM (#14845049)
Some of these: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvekey.cgi?keyword=windows+8.1 though I'll grant most of the ones on the front page at least are basically just "everything from 7 on".
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