Another Opinion on Security of Macs

Fellow attorney, blogger, and Mac enthusiast Grant Griffiths has posted two articles touting the security offered by Macs:

• “114,000 Virus: Not on a Mac” posted at FutureLawyer
• “Why Macs Are More Secure” posted at the Home Office Lawyer

In these articles, Grant highlights the following key factors:

• Mac OS X has a superior UNIX foundation and security features that go above and beyond the norm for PCs.
• He does not run a virus program on his Macs, and he has never had a virus.
• Dialog boxes alert you whenever you even download a file that could contain or conceal executable code (that is, a program, as opposed to a document).
• You can opt to make your Mac invisible to ‘pings’ from the Internet, a common tactic of spammers who are looking for available machines to turn into spam relay stations.

Source: “114,000 Virus: Not on a Mac” by Grant Griffiths, ‘guest’ posted at FutureLawyer and “Why Macs Are More Secure” by Grant Griffiths, posted at the Home Office Lawyer blog.