{"id":2816,"date":"2004-09-22T17:49:53","date_gmt":"2004-09-23T07:49:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/09\/22\/security-issues-driving-pc-users-to-the-mac\/"},"modified":"2019-12-11T09:12:41","modified_gmt":"2019-12-11T17:12:41","slug":"security-issues-driving-pc-users-to-the-mac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/09\/22\/security-issues-driving-pc-users-to-the-mac\/","title":{"rendered":"Security issues driving PC users to the Mac"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:10196,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.usatoday.com\\\/tech\\\/columnist\\\/kevinmaney\\\/2004-09-21-maney_x.htm&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20080512125852\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.usatoday.com:80\\\/tech\\\/columnist\\\/kevinmaney\\\/2004-09-21-maney_x.htm&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-11 02:09:48&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-21 11:21:48&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-21 11:21:48&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:10197,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.macminute.com\\\/2004\\\/09\\\/22\\\/viruses&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20061019172458\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.macminute.com:80\\\/2004\\\/09\\\/22\\\/viruses\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-11 02:09:55&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-11 02:09:55&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>It&#8217;s certainly not much of a surprise, given the ever-increasing number of attacks against Windows of late, but more and more people are moving to the Mac platform after getting hit by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/tech\/columnist\/kevinmaney\/2004-09-21-maney_x.htm\" title=\"Mac or PC? Windows' security issues help some users choose\">one too many Windows security problems<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  USATODAY.com &#8211; Mac or PC? Windows&#8217; security issues help some users choose: &#8220;Cultishness aside, though, people are switching because of the security issue. In Austin, computer consultant Brad Hudelson was once a high-level manager at Dell, the leading maker of Windows PCs. Hudelson says he&#8221;gave up after Sasser (virus attacks) last year and replaced all my machines with Apples and Mac OS X.\\&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>  Physician Thomas Essman switched for the same reason. So did Bryan Crawford, a biology professor at the University of Alberta in Canada. &#8220;I&#8217;ve been in computer heaven ever since,&#8221; Crawford says.<\/p>\n<p>  Here&#8217;s a particularly good one: Daryl Forrest is a developer of software for Windows. &#8220;I have moved all non-work-related computing to a new Apple Power Mac G5,&#8221; he writes. &#8220;I like Windows XP, but the risks are too high these days. It&#8217;s sad that it has gotten to this.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>  On and on it goes, one e-mail after another.\\&#8221;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>On a personal note, Prairie&#8217;s dad is one of these people (indirectly through me &#8212; I helped convince Prairie to switch, though she&#8217;d already been considering it, and her dad got hooked when he got to play with her iMac during a recent visit). Another one bites the dust&#8230;;)<\/p>\n<p>(Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.macminute.com\/2004\/09\/22\/viruses\/\" title=\"Virus victims continue to migrate to Mac OS X\">MacMinute<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s certainly not much of a surprise, given the ever-increasing number of attacks against Windows of late, but more and more people are moving to the Mac platform after getting hit by one too many Windows security problems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2039],"tags":[65],"class_list":["post-2816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2816\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}