Accordion to sophos antivirus via El Reg, its time to exterminate the vole and get a mac...


Security firm Sophos has issued a call for home computer users to ditch the Windows operating system and switch to Macs for the sake of their safety online.

And this stat from McAfee, 200,000 malwarez in their database, doubled from '04 - and 18yrs for the first 100,000, seems to drive it home.

Face it - Winders is Broke!


Anti-virus firm McAfee released protection for its 200,000th ever malware threat this week.
While bots are still the leading cause of this dramatic growth, exploits and downloaders are a close second (see breakdown here). Email worms saw significantly smaller growth over the last two years compared to types of malware.