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PC Mag - Mac OS X Insecure
Suki writes "In this recent story a PC Mag writer concludes that "Panther and Jaguar were not better at outrunning vulnerabilities than Windows" and as my personal fav. ends by asking "How cocky are you feeling now, Mac elite? Hmm. Suddenly it's gotten pretty quiet around here." The article discusses many previous Windows security holes against a recent Mac OS X security flaw."
Aren't you insecure anyway?
Take the cheese to sickbay, the doctor should see it as soon as possible - B'Elanna Torres, "Learning Curve"
Actually it can, but because there are so few Mac users, and hard to tell them apart from the Windows users, no one has bothered to write the program yet.
Are you doing that annoying Mac zealot thing where you try to deny there's a signficintly higher amount of COMPUTER PROGRAMS available to run under Windows as compared to on ANY Mac OS?!?!?
Mac OS X and Windows XP working side by side to fight back the night.
last time my office of 300+ people had some worm running around, my mac was NOT infected
Last time my office of 2000+ people had some worm running around, none of the Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris or Mac boxes were affected.
Don't blame me, I didn't vote for either of them!
So every little unix app is supposed to somehow make up for all of the larger programs Windows users have and Mac users don't?
Mac OS X and Windows XP working side by side to fight back the night.
Parent post proves the authors point about Mac users being fanatical.
So someone doesn't share your worldview, stop being a baby and get over it.
This is not to say that I agree with the articles premise either, but it seems far more constructive to discuss the merits here (which I am sure he will read) rather than sending out a bunch of angry emails.
Hey look, another stupid AC that can't parse English.
Jaysyn
There is a war going on for your mind.
From the folks at CARS
Why is it any harder to write an email worm for a Mac?
Send an executable attachment to the average mac user.
"This is the latest security patch from Apple. Please install this on your Mac as soon as possible. You will need to enter your admin password during installation"
Sure it requires a password, but what makes Mac users more secure against social engineering?
Any user program can open an outgoing port and start forwarding itself to email addresses harvested from mac centric newsgroups.
What makes that virus any more difficult to write than the average windows one?
Most viruses that exist don't exploit bugs or design flaws in the OS, they just use the published API to perform actions that the user did not intend.
"Taligent is still pure vapor. Maybe they'll be the last who jumps up on Openstep... "
The guy's a total moron. Ignore him.