A friend of my wife, who uses a Mac, told her that she doesn't get Spam on her Mac. She suggested to my wife, who has a PC Laptop that gets inundated daily with spam, that she get a Mac.

Is this true? If so, would this be another benefit of having a Mac?

Felix

Well, I don't know about others, but I do get a few spams a day (3-5 messages), but 95% are caught by Mail's spam scanner and relegated to the junk mail box. It's pretty easy to deal with and administer, day-to-day, and I've never lost anything important.

It has to do with the mail client and spam settings you are using. Nothing to do with a mac... but if you want one it's a good excuse to use..lol

krug is right, though I have to say .Mac (which you can only get with a Mac) does a decent job of keeping the spam out. Maybe that's what the OP's wife's friend meant.

As krug says, if that will talk the friend into getting a Mac ... I will officially look the other way.

The amount of spam that arrives depends on how widely distributed your email address is, and how effective your ISP's spam filters are. Nothing to do with your machine or OS.

Once it has arrived, then different mail clients are better or worse at detecting the spam and automatically deleting it or relegating to a spam folder.

Strangely enough, I on't get any Spam on my Mac either and that is with the Spam filter at the ISP end turned off (They used to pick up emails in French, German and Italian as Spam, so I had them turn the filter off) and the Spam filter in Apple mail still in the learning mode.
I have had my email address for about 15 years now and use it quite extensively.

I can't really explain why I get no Spam, not that I'm complaining, but when other people complain about getting hundreds of Spam messages daily - I some times wonder.

However, as others mentioned, it shouldn't have anything to do with the Mac or OS X.

You're probably not visiting as many porn or gambling sites as they are.