Sophos says Apple good security choice

By Matt Whipp

Posted on 6 Dec 2005 at 14:39

But there are other options. Plug an unprotected Apple or Linux box onto the Internet, and you can expect to see the infection rate flatline, said Cluley.

That's not to say there are no viruses for Mac OS X or the various Linux distributions, but Windows viruses dwarf them.

'It wouldn't really work for businesses,' said Cluley, 'But for consumers I think [Apple] is quite good.'

You can accuse it of security through obscurity, but in a world where 70 per cent of Windows users don't feel the responsibility of securing their computers, perhaps they are better off with a less targeted platform. Perhaps they don't deserve Windows.

You can find out more about Sophos on its website.