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Windows Vista and Mac OS X
Thursday, July 13th, 2006
I like the Windows platform. It’s highly functional, a plethora of software is available to help me 
accomplish nearly anything I want with a computer, and I’ve been using it for so long that it’s like riding a bike–it just happens almost automatically.
But, as with most things in this world, Windows does have its annoyances, and there is one particular annoyance that bothers me more than most other annoyances: malware.
Recently, security solution vendor McAfee said that back in September 2004, it added the 100,000th threat to its database. It took 18 years for the company to reach that milestone. Somewhat shockingly, it took fewer than two years for the database to double in size. Between September 2004 and July 2006, the company added another 100,000 threats to its database, effectively expanding it to 200,000 threats. That’s a phenomenal growth rate, and it doesn’t appear to be slowing. McAfee said that if current trends continue, the company will surpass 400,000 threats in its database before the end of 2008. Windows Vista and Mac OS X
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