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18 ways to safeguard your data and your privacy right now

Jun 19, 2006
by Mark H. Anbinder, Jeffery Battersby, Glenn Fleishman, Kirk McElhearn

We've said it before and we'll say it again: Your Mac is the safest personal computer on the market. Even though we've had a couple of scares this year, there are still almost no Mac viruses. According to research done by Sophos (a maker of antivirus software), at press time there were only four known OS X viruses, compared with roughly 80,000 on Windows.

But let's face it - we live in a dangerous world, and not all of those dangers (especially those to your privacy) are platform-specific. Here's how to keep your personal information out of the wrong hands - and keep your Mac out of trouble.

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