http://roguedeals.com/macs-are-they-invulnerable/ Tech deals, reviews, products, opinions. Thu, 18 Feb 2010 22:07:55 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 http://roguedeals.com/macs-are-they-invulnerable/comment-page-1/#comment-332 Greg C Tue, 03 Nov 2009 04:26:56 +0000 http://roguedeals.com/?p=3857#comment-332 Whoever says macs are invulnerable to viruses and exploits google "ARDAgent Exploit" and see that it allows hackers to gain root access without the user knowing. It also hasn't been officially been patched by Apple and was discovered 2 years ago.<br> The problem is one of choice. People like Mac for design and audio, but anything a mac can do, a pc can. Granted, Final Cut is the gold standard of video editing, and pro tools is that of audio. However, Windows has a bunch of useful stuff (Pro Tools, Cubase, Reason, Fruity Loops, etc.). I have a Macbook and love it, but my recording machine is my desktop, which has Windows 7. Whoever says macs are invulnerable to viruses and exploits google “ARDAgent Exploit” and see that it allows hackers to gain root access without the user knowing. It also hasn't been officially been patched by Apple and was discovered 2 years ago.
The problem is one of choice. People like Mac for design and audio, but anything a mac can do, a pc can. Granted, Final Cut is the gold standard of video editing, and pro tools is that of audio. However, Windows has a bunch of useful stuff (Pro Tools, Cubase, Reason, Fruity Loops, etc.). I have a Macbook and love it, but my recording machine is my desktop, which has Windows 7.

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