Oh, I understand. You jumped straight into a thread without understanding what it is about.
You try to discredit me through attacking my character, instead of attacking my premise. I don't think you even understand my premise.
I never suggested there was less malware for Windows than OS X (cause obviously Windows is littered with it). I never suggested to ignore bugs (where did you get this from?). All I suggested was that Windows Vista/7 has many security features built in that Mac OS X does not. And it is of my opinion, for example, a person surfing with IE8 in Vista/7 is more secure than that of a person surfing Safari on OS X. However, I still think you are more likely going to be targeted on a Windows platform than an Apple one - so while the security of product might be better or on par with Mac OS X, it will be more likely of the 2 to have malware.
Being a target does not make a product less secure, but rather makes security problems more likely to arise.
I do think it's a baseless and obviously biased claim when people say Mac OS X security is fantastic, and in the same breath say Windows is so far behind in this department. This people are usually Mac fanboy's or M$ bashers.
You, I think, are just an idiot.
Coupled with the fact that not all antivirus and anti-malware will spot every variant. It'll get 90+ percent, but you always hear about the ones that get through.
I get the rest of your defence but why allow users to execute random files in a windows environment?
>>>they'd make off with around two grand before they were stopped. I was informed that I'm only worth 645 dollars.
Correct. The "guy" pays $645 for your information and he scores about $2000 using it. So around $1300 profit minus expenses like gasoline, renting a place to atash the stuff, and so on. It wouldn't make sense for the guy to pay $5000 for your data if he's only netting $2000 stolen, would it?
I had my credit card number stolen one time, and somebody in California bought $3500 worth of stuff at Walmart. I had been traveling and I suspected the girl behind the Motel 6 desk had collected and sold my number. I don't know how much the scammer paid that girl but if it was around $1500 (Symantec's estimate), then he "earned" $2000 profit overall. Not bad.
See it's not about "your" value. It's about the value to the scam artist and how much he thinks he can get with that data.
After Goliath's defeat, giants ceased to command respect. - Freeman Dyson