More Mac Vulnerabilities Than Windows In 2007?

eldavojohn writes "A ZDNet blog reports stats from Secunia showing OSX averaged 20.25 vulnerabilities per month while XP & Vista combined averaged 3.67/month. Is this report card's implication accurate, or is this a symptom of one company turning a blind eye while the other concentrates on timely bugfixes? 'While Windows Vista shows fewer flaws than Windows XP and has more mitigating factors against exploitation, the addition of Windows Defender and Sidebar added 4 highly critical flaws to Vista that weren't present in Windows XP. Sidebar accounted for three of those additional vulnerabilities and it's something I am glad I don't use. The lone Defender critical vulnerability that was supposed to defend Windows Vista was ironically the first critical vulnerability for Windows Vista.'"

Comments

Macs cannot be critiqued

[athloi]

They are not Microsoft.

Therefore

They are beyond criticism.

Anything that is not Microsoft, and makes us feel like the hipper kids in the street, is automatically beyond criticism. We all wish we were the rich kids in Redmond, but since we're townies instead, we will speak ill of them any time we can. Macintosh is not from Redmond. True, they are greedy and wealthy. But they are not our enemy so they are us.

(See also Apple's identity problem.)

Repeat something false often enough...

[pieterh]

Linux costs more than Windows.

Open standards are bad for the economy.

Software patents are good for the economy.

Microsoft is a nice company.

Windows Vista is more secure than Mac OS/X.

OOXML is better than ODF.

Buying votes is a good way to build new standards.

People remain with Windows because they like it.

Firefox is less secure than Internet Explorer.

They're not really people, anyway...

Microsoft SDL is making a difference

[mrkitty]

bash microsoft all you want however their new SDL is really making a difference in securing their products. of course they will continue to have issues it won't remove all the issues, however it has reduced their bug count big time. Take IIS 5/6/7 as a great example of how their process is making a difference. Bash away MS bashing zealots.