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Lets put things into perspective so people can get a grip on the relative threat of using a Mac verses using Windows.

The chances of being infected using Windows if connected to the internet are equal the the chance that you will die if you stop breathing and you heart stops for thirty minutes.

Using a Mac the chances of catching an as yet non-existent virus, spyware etc. in the wild on the internet are equal to being struck by lightning inside a train travelling through the Chunnel while receiving a cell phone call notifying you your wife just gave birth to thirty seven children today and also finding you've won a 4 billion dollar lottery.

To break it down further Windows 100% certainty of infection - Mac 1/infinity squared not quite an absolute certainty of zero chance of infection if used for the next trillion years.

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