With Windows XP, on the other hand, every application has the same privileges as you do. When it needs to do something that requires special permission, it asks first, and you can decide to grant permission just once or from thereon in.
With OS X, the system does not automatically have the same rights as you do. When you try to open an application for the very first time, OS X will ask if you really are launching it yourself (giving you a chance to stop a potentially harmful application from launching automatically). Let's take a look at how the two systems handle things differently when it comes to security. The Mac's OS X Unix (FreeBSD) roots give it a structural edge over Windows XP.
And since hackers are after fame or money, they usually go for the most popular platform - in today's computing world, that means Windows.īut Macs can take care of their own business. Why is this?įor one thing, only one in fifty computer users has a Mac. Yes, there are plenty of security vulnerabilities in the Mac OS X too! The Mac is nevertheless safer than Windows-based PCs! You only have to look at the number of Mac-based malware to feel safer.
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