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AppleCare rep tells Ed Bott Mac malware reports are up

by Dana Franklin (May 18th, 2011)

An anonymous AppleCare support representative spoke to ZDNet's Ed Bott over the weekend, telling the reporter that complaints about malware infections on the Mac increased significantly in the first half of May. "This last week over 50% of our calls have been about [malware]," said the AppleCare ...

Ed Bott's side-by-side Mac and PC experiment

by David Quilty (Nov 16th, 2010)

ZDNet's Microsoft reporter Ed Bott is switching to a Mac. It's not forever and not in the way that you may be thinking, but for the time being he has decided to get serious about a side-by-side Mac and PC comparison he started over a year ago. Using a Mac mini and an HP Pavilion Elite desktop ...