Symantec CEO: buy a Mac

Macs received a big endorsement today from the CEO of one the leading security companies. Symantec CEO John Thompson touted the security of the Mac platform, saying that the current dominance of Windows attracts more hackers and virus writers. "We think more people ought to buy them," Thompson said of Apple's growing Mac platform. CNET News.com reports that he was responding to a question from the audience at the Future in Review conference on Monday. He also said that the "target-rich" environment created by Windows vulnerabilities means that virus writers and hackers have set their sights on Windows PCs; however, he warned that as Macs become more popular, the platform may attract more attention from virus writers and that an increasing number of phishing attacks are independent of any operating system. Earlier this year, the company released a patch for a critical security flaw in its LiveUpdate for Macintosh and late last year issued a patch to resolve a critical flaw in its Norton anti-virus application.

by MacNN Staff