Why are Pc's more virus prone than macs?

Answer 1

Windows PCs enjoy a 90% market share. That means more computers to infect, and it is more likely that one PC will help to infect others. The hackers go after the major market share.

Macs have fewer viruses, since they are such a tiny 5%. Their operating system is a closed architecture with a much simpler way to close security holes. There are fewer software variations. It is simply harder to develop viruses for them. BUT WAIT, with the new Intel chip, future Macs could be in trouble.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

Because less than 2% of the computer literate world is using a Mac those computers are less connected to the internet and aren't connected to anything worth breaking into such as a bank or a mortgage database. Writing a virus that affects Mac would barely be noticed. It's the same reason most software developers don't bother with Mac.

Answer 4

Less people use macs, therefore less people are interested in writing virusses for them.

Also more Microsoft users are running Administrator accounts which are required for virusses to efficiently hide themselves and/or destroy the whole system.

Microsoft's Internet Explorer and specifically it's ActiveX plugins can easily be used by virus programmers as Internet Explorer is widespread, very badly written and easy to exploit as often only pages need to be visited. Also Internet Explorer is physically bound into the System (Explorer for instance is a variant of Internet Explorer and Explorer is nearly everything a user sees of Windows) Equally Outlook Express, the Windows standard Email client is very deeply bound into the system.

Ps: Also, previously, Apple was on a different processor platform, which made it impossible of writing virusses which could attack both operating systems. Since there are a number of Operating Systems running on the Intel structure and only mac had it's special platform there was -- say was -- less purpose for writing a PowerPc virus.

Answer 5

companies? Nope. ninety 9.ninety six% of all pc viruses are written for the abode windows platform. There are over 2,000,000 kinds of abode windows malware. There hasn't been a MacOS X virus when you consider that 2006, there are about 24 kinds of Mac malware available at present. Your iBook on the suited might want to be operating MacOS X 10.4.11 and except some trojans or fake downloads, you're fantastic.

Answer 6

1. There are more PC's than Macs, so if you want to cause more mayhem, you write a virus for PC's
2. Microsoft doesn't release security fixes until after a virus exploits a hole.
3. Microsoft thought allowing self-executing software was a good idea, and hackers took full advantage.

Answer 7

Because most of the masses own PCs and not Macs. Those who write the virus or worm do it to harm the highest percentage of users and the odds are that those people have PCs running Microsoft Windows operating systems.

Answer 8

if your going to invest time in writing a virus why go for macs almost no one uses them for every mac there is at least 25 PCs

Answer 9

Because Windows is more popular, so the hooligans focus on Windows. When Mac is more popular, it will be more virus-prone...

Answer 10

Yes because PCs are more common than MACs, and virus writers want 'spreadability'.