Is there something I'm missing here?

Today, in class I was sitting in one of my lessons where if you ask me, I'm not sure what my teachers stance is on Mac OS, because at times he appears like he gets very annoyed with the Mac user themselves thinking they are all that and whatnot, and others he says he had the Lisa way back then but since then he's been mostly using PCs.

Anyways to get onto the story, my instructor asked the class to raise their hand if they DO NOT have an anti-virus installed on their computer, I raised my hand because my Mac doesn't however my windows machine does, but I wanted to see his reaction, he continued by saying that we (the students who raised their hands, only like me and one other person) are either stupid or lazy. A student next to me that I talk to, told the teacher that I have a Mac. The teacher replies oh the Mac OS has viruses too, I said not any in the wild since OS X was released and your security is dependant on if you setup your system right. he replies "oh ok" then starts taking underhanded attacks verbally towards Mac users such as saying "I know Mac users dont care about this" and so forth.

Now today I had class with him again, and we continue the discussion on viruses and he states, "my class last night, I asked the same question and one person in there had his Mac and such, and said he didn't run an anti-virus either" the person next to him said "oh yeah I had a virus on my mac last week"

in my head, I heard the tires squealing as they stopped, and thought "where was I, I haven't seen any reports on this within the Mac community, which as many know is a very TIGHTLY knit community, word travels very fast and support between us all is great." Now taking all the time I spent staring at the guy in classes his behavior when he said it was different and almost gave me the sense what he just said was a made up lie, and no I'm not being biased here and thinking thats what I saw, it's actually what I saw. He seemed somewhat nervous and like "heh" laughing.

So my question is, did I miss something here, is there a virus I don't know of thats missing from my knowledge? I'm wondering if that Mac user ment that his computer detected a windows virus not a mac one, and the teacher is twisting the words.

excuse my poor grammer and such, as today I'm "Lazy" and "Stupid".

 

my guess is that that guy was using os 9. or was running windows and got it there. or was maybe just being a jackass like the prof.

 

Yeah its a possibility, because I know a few students who have taken him or are taking his classes and don't exactly fancy the guy. It surprises me even still to today all these windows users still bash the Mac, and when I ask them I find out mostly just about everyone of them never truly used a Mac. Talk about ignorance.

 

I suppose your teacher must have had some bad experiences with the Mac community during his lifetime. The uber hardcore Mac community is really **** annoying and will put everyone off Mac for a very long time (they did for me, by insulting every non-Mac component, may it be hardware or software, non stop without providing a valid argument). Either that, or your teacher is a stupid fag and should not be taken seriously for life.

 

Well, hey, I used to slam mac's until a few months ago. I've had nothing but bad experiences with them. Had a bunch of G4's in the lab that had dead batteries (um... not sure what to call them, but the equivelent of a CMOS batteryin a PC mobo).
Plus one would randomly shut down. The two g4 towers I tried in my office (from the Univ. surplus) wouldnt' boot. Found out that the monitor out port had a bent pin (was able to fix and boot).

The thing that our Univ. does that realy makes macs look bad, is that they do a net boot for them. Now, I know that can be done with them succesfully, but the guy in charge hates macs and refuses to let our other admin fix the script issue that causes them to crawl. It literally will take 10 min to open an app (such as garage band).
And accessing the network drives... Beachball of DOOM!
But once I played with a friends MBP, I kinda fell in love with them. While my experience hasn't been perfect, I do like Mac now. I could see me bying a Mac Pro in a few years as my main desktop.

 

There are no Mac viruses in the wild, period.

Anyone who says there are circulating Mac viruses is just making things up. See Symantec's statement on this issue:
http://www.symantec.com/enterprise/...g/2006/07/macinenterprise_mac_os_x_virus.html
"Simply put, at the time of writing this article, there are no file-infecting viruses that can infect Mac OS X."

Symantec sells anti-virus software. If there were any viruses at all, circulating, they'd be the first people to be crowing about it (for marketing reasons).

 

Thanks everyone for the excellent responses, I especially enjoyed the link AlanY provided, you have proven to me at least to be an excellent source of information here.

I can expand on hollow's post by saying in my experiences it seems like Macs that are networked are terrific and work fast, as long as its Mac to Mac communications, it seems that adding PC into the equation causes the Mac to slow down, it did that way at my High School, our Mac admin at my old high school said it was because the PCs on the network slowed down the Macs, now I'm not sure if it was him being biased or not but seeing how everyone else that I got into this topic with states the same for them at their school, so I'm starting to believe the Mac admin was right.

Thanks to all of you!

 

Hey, you know whats kinda cool...
The Dean of my college (not the university) is a big mac user, and has been for years.
They purchased a bunch of mac minis for the labs, but now they're looking at replacing everything with either macminis or possibly macpros.
It's really the best solution for us since we need to have linux, xp, and os x.

Yeah, it's not because of hte PC's. It's becasue they're not properly setup. We tested the fix over summer and they worked as they should have. But the overall system admin wouldn't let oru guy apply the fix. He hates macs..

 

I'm surprised no one has told the supervisor of the administrator this, a workplace is no place for someones personal belief of whats superior or not.

 

Yeah, it's all politics. The guy thats in charge of that stuff is a jackass. He's one of those people that will turn down a areally good idea, then a month later bring it back up and kinda think it was his idea.
Some of the system admin guys are just weird... Pain in the ass to deal with.