Sadly apple dont need viruses to crippke them they provide them so locked down they are practically crippled from the get go. Dont buy fruit based electronics overpriced fashion focussed tat.One thing you can't argue about is the reliability of Apple devices - they tend to not crash & don't get a virus. I went to the big pc store at Christmas 2012 period to buy a mid priced tablet for my other half & they had sold out of the iPad mini. All the staff that came over to me, (there were several because of Christmas) told me exactly same story - buy Apple because it's the best for anti virus.