I don't care what a person uses as an OS or browser, etc.  If you don't develop safe habits and stop depending  on your software progs to auto check everything and  do it for you..you will have probs. sooner or later.

Get in the habit of manually scanning every file you download to your machine BEFORE you open or unzip it  or run it....and don't give a site permission to put anything on your pc unless you trust it.
Of course there are other safety habits to get into...like making sure your AV is always up to date on the virus definitions...etc.

I'm only talking about Windows environments ... I don't know anything about MAC.
It isn't a likely thing that I will switch to MAC at this point because I've spent toooo many years using Windows..  [since Windows 3 and DOS}
But the one thing I know for sure  is..YOU have to take hands on responsibility and not leave it up to a program.

It doesn't really matter what software you use..it matters what you do with it.

 

“For those who believe, no proof is necessary. For those who don't believe, no proof is possible.”

[Stuart Chase]