Yeah i like building, upgrading, overclocking and customizing PCs WAY too much to ever own a mac. Most of the time I've checked, you can buy/build a PC with 2x the performance of a mac thats the same prices. I've never understood the appeal of apples over-priced products, especially when you can get something that does more for less. I guess the interface might be easier on ppl w/o much experience with technology now days, but really, who ISN'T familiar with the average windows environment now days anyways?
As far as windows getting more infections than macs, that's a given. It's like someone from a small town with the population of a couple thousand ppl boasting that they have less murders than a bigger city - there's less of everything! Anyways, I havent had a virus on any of my PCs in 5-10 years. If anyone who's been having trouble with infections were to ask for my advice:
-Do a fresh windows install
-Stop using internet explorer (unless you have XP, in which case you have to use it to get windows updates, but for nothing else)
-get Firefox, along with these add-ons: Ad-block, Web of Trust, and (if you're a bit more tech savvy or want to be extra safe) No-Script - all of which you can find on the official firefox add-ons site. use firefox and ONLY firefox for browsing the web.. no IE, and NO CHROME!
-get NOD32 Antivirus from
www.eset.com/store and install it. I think its like $30, but its THE best AV out there. I repair PCs at my job and I'm pretty familiar with almost all of them. Norton, McAfee, AVG, and crappy AVs like them do very poor jobs of protecting computers, but an awesome job of slowing them down and crashing them! NOD32 does the opposite, catches almost everything and uses almost no system resources.
-get Comodo -
http://personalfirewall.comodo.com/free-download.html. It comes bundled with an antivirus that i honestly havent given much of a try, but you can choose not to install it in favor of NOD32. What you'll get then is a pretty awesome firewall and also protection from a lot of other malicious programs and security threats. It might be a bit hard for a really noobish user to set up, but once you do, you'll be pretty much armor-clad
If Comodo is too much for you, you could just use the firewall included with windows and maybe get a free spyware scanner like spybot and malwarebytes instead.
Not only do i use this setup on my PCs, but I also setup frequent problem customers with it. One guy used to bring his PC in every other month because he had no common sense with his browsing and believes everthing and falls for every ad that looks like a fake system message and stuff like that. I finally said enough with the insufficient free AVG that wasnt doing much to help him and then set up his PC the way i described above. I havent seen him in about a year lol. Which is fine by me because i get paid hourly either way, with or without his business.
(Thankfully they were all work or school comps, never personally owned.) Never had a PC go bad on me so I know it wasn't me, ha ha. I think I have some Mac-specific radiation or something....
