Try this one on for size: Firefox didn't have an security issues until it started becoming popular. The Mac had a few recently too.
Windows SERVERS are not the common target of these root-kits, the DESKTOP is because it IS the most popular.
If Joe Beerbelly used Linux on the desktop, you'd have to take away his ability to install programs to protect him. How useable is the system at that point?
"If Windows represent a bigger target, it SUPPOSEDLY has the "advantage" of being closed-source but the open source Unices, which are fewer in number SHOULD be an easier target."
Hogwash. Why would i target a system that fewer installs? I need an army of machines to get my spam out or to propagate my virus. *nix can't provide that right now.
I'm not saying that *nix is no good, but the logic that it is a smaller target therefore relatively unchallenged holds true.
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Everyone knows that only fags use Macs.
Sorry, but you're just plain wrong.
"This has been refuted time and again..."
Really? Got an example?
Try this one on for size: Firefox didn't have an security issues until it started becoming popular. The Mac had a few recently too.
Windows SERVERS are not the common target of these root-kits, the DESKTOP is because it IS the most popular.
If Joe Beerbelly used Linux on the desktop, you'd have to take away his ability to install programs to protect him. How useable is the system at that point?
"If Windows represent a bigger target, it SUPPOSEDLY has the "advantage" of being closed-source but the open source Unices, which are fewer in number SHOULD be an easier target."
Hogwash. Why would i target a system that fewer installs? I need an army of machines to get my spam out or to propagate my virus. *nix can't provide that right now.
I'm not saying that *nix is no good, but the logic that it is a smaller target therefore relatively unchallenged holds true.