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by throw0101d 702 days ago
> Apple pretends they don't need antivirus the same way some Linux advocates will, but viruses exist on both platforms.

Sure. But when was the last time a company was in the news when they were hit with macOS-, iOS-, or Linux-based ransomware?

I'm in IT, but Windows was never my thing/niche. Generally I've viewed two problems with it:

1. when it becomes a monoculture where basically everything in the company runs on it

2. something about its architecture/designs appears (to me, at least) for very easy spreading of malware (does it have some weaker SSH-equivalent that allows easy remote control?)

Just ask Maersk about these two points:

* https://www.wired.com/story/notpetya-cyberattack-ukraine-rus...