As someone who used to sell Mac computers, I used to get asked the question "Is it true macs never get viruses?", to which I replied "No that's not true." (It was just an apple reseller store afterall so I was never compelled to bend the facts.) I'd try to explain the caveats a bit: a smaller market share and the unix based operating system requiring more permissions, yada yada, being "prohibitive" to an attack but still vulnerable. Still, for 3 years that question came up a few times a week, even as apple started taking off (2006-2009 ish) and grabbing more and more of the market.
I guess it was just amazing to me how disinformation like that flows so freely. It probably started out with the caveats but eventually got boiled down to "Macs never get viruses". And what computer company is going to publicly correct that statement?
I guess it was just amazing to me how disinformation like that flows so freely. It probably started out with the caveats but eventually got boiled down to "Macs never get viruses". And what computer company is going to publicly correct that statement?