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Viruses and Market Dominance - Myth or Fact?

Posted by simoniker on from the wash-your-hands-first dept.

rocketjam writes "An article at The Register, authored by Scott Granneman of SecurityFocus, examines the conventional wisdom that if Linux or Mac OS X were as popular as Windows, there would be just as many viruses written for those platforms. Mr. Granneman bluntly says this is wrong, then proceeds to detail the fundamental differences between those OS's and Windows which make Windows an easy and inviting target for virus-writers, as opposed to the Unix-based platforms."

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  1. Re:whatever by E-Rock · · Score: 1, Redundant

    BS, it isn't trivial, but OE sure as hell can be removed from Win2k.

  2. He forgot about the macros. by scruffy · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Another hole is that you can embed programs in Word documents and the like.