<p>IS it possible for macs to crash? Like if you were to go on bad virus filled websites (porn or stuff like that), could your computer need to be wiped?</p>
<p>are you implying that you plan to visit lots of porn sites and want to know if the Mac is a better choice than a PC because it's less likely to crash?</p>
<p>my brother visits porn sites and his Mac is fine. i dont, and mine is fine. I can think of several times where I received a virus-laced email, opened it, downloaded a document, and forwarded the email to others. No effect to my Mac. Almost everyone I know who had a PC and got the email had to get their computer repaired, if not completely overhauled.</p>
<p>It IS possible for macs to crash, although they don't crash as often as windows machines.</p>
<p>I have a WinXP Vaio & a mac and to be honest, I have absolutely no preference between the two.</p>
<p>The only difference to me is that the macs look prettier.</p>
<p>Of course it's possible. In fact I guarentee your Mac will lock up and may need to be restarted, or perhaps restart itself! Is it going to happen as much as Windows? Not a chance.</p>
<p>The thing is, a Mac is still a computer. No matter how good the operating system is, you are bound to have a few hiccups where your hardware can't catch up with what the software is doing.</p>
<p>On the other hand, If you ask me if a Mac can get a virus(as of right now), the answer is no. There are currently no viruses on the prowl for OS X.</p>
<p>Cheers,
Alex</p>
<p>can macs still get spyware, trojan horses, worms, etc?</p>
<p>Just go to clean porn sites, ones that dont look shady</p>
<p>Paul, as of right now, there is no virus/trojan/spyware or otherwise malicous bug for OS X. This could, of course, change over time. But as history has shown, Apple is adept at keeping OS X clean and safe.</p>
<p>If you are debating to get a Mac or not, I urge you to strongly consider it, OS X is a fantastic OS and one that is far superior(in my opinion) to Windows Vista or XP. With Leopard right around the corner look for OS X to make even a larger gap between the two.</p>
<p>Hope this helps,
Alex</p>
<p>Well...i've accomplished it a million times. </p>
<p>1) installed system updates while still talking on ichat. Bad idea. It took 4 hours at the genious bar to fix it. (And I'm the schools go-to for mac problems so EVERYONE brings this incident up. If someone says something retarded and I point it out the reply is almost always "Yeah, well at least I didn't crash a mac." It's all good fun though.)
2) tried to install the sims 2 expansion packs without the original program. Oh and i didn't get these expansion packs the conventional way (go to the store, amazon, etc.) either.
3) Right now iChat doesn't even exist on my computer, Safari doesn't close tabs or windows, iDVD doesn't even exist, photoshop doesn't start without freezing, Final Cut just stopped working altogether (I lost the CD too so I can't reinstall it), and AIM dies almost every 5 minutes when I'm in the middle of a conversation. All of this was spontaneous though. I think I have a virus, if one exists. </p>
<p>Those are the only ways I've ever had problems with mine. Oh and it sometimes crashes if you run final cut, dvd pro, safari, ichat, snood, ppt, and sketchup all at the same time. Yeah...if you're going to do that, make sure you don't touch the bottom or right below the screen (if it's a laptop) either. >.< Other than that, I've tried a million ways just to see if I can crash it again but nope. Crashing it hasnt worked in forever.</p>
<p>My Mac has been ON since January without shutting-down/restarting, and it's perfectly fine. I do plan on retarting it with the next Mac OS X software update, though. </p>
<p>In fact, I do not recall when was the last time my PowerBook has crashed; only about 1-2 times in its lifetime. So no, with personal experience, Macs never (if so, extremely rarely) crash. :)</p>
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<p>You have it all wrong. OS X appears squeaky clean because hackers don't want to spend their time creating malicious software to attack an OS owned by probably less than 10% of the computer-owning population.</p>
<p>I thought it was more than that?</p>
<p><a href="http://www.macrumors.com/2006/02/16/the-first-mac-os-x-virus-a-new-os-x-trojan/%5B/url%5D">http://www.macrumors.com/2006/02/16/the-first-mac-os-x-virus-a-new-os-x-trojan/</a>
There are viruses for OSX. Just not many because no one bothers. That may change, however, as macs become more and more popular.</p>
<p>Macs don't get viruses and don't crash as often as windows pc's but keep in mind they're computers made by humans and as much as Steve Jobs and Steve Wosniak are very smart people, they aren't perfect. So yes, they do sometimes crash, but not as much as windows.</p>
<p>Strykur:</p>
<p>How am I wrong? I'll give you the fact that not many people target Macs, but the fact remains that Apple fixes most holes or security problems very quickly - Thus, adept at fixing problems and keeping the OS clean.</p>
<p>OS X is really safe and clean, so it's not an illusion like you claim. Trust me, a lot of people would love to be the one that "cracked" OS X. There are plenty of capable hackers using Macs, and they haven't had a lot of luck, have they?</p>
<p>In any case, it's safe to say that Apple is far more adept at this thing than Microsoft.</p>
<p>Cheers,
Alex</p>