So why is it when a vulnerability exists in OS X that REQUIRES THE USER TO DO SOMETHING, is OS X "Struck by Severe Security Hole", but when simply plugging a windoze box onto the net gets it infected is it just business as usual? A "severe" security hole to me is one in which no actions at all are required by the user (just having the machine on the net resulting in a compromise).
My first computer was an Apple Lisa. My dad bought one for the store that he managed, but it lived at home while he (and the kids) learned how to use it. I was probably 4 or 5 at the time. Once we got the computer, I stopped drawing on paper and would only draw on the computer (LisaDraw, and then later MacDraw and MacPaint). That probably explains why I can't draw freehand to this day. My dad also used to get all over me over the years for messing with the system settings, being so sure that I would screw something up. I never screwed anything up, but now he's the one who comes to me with computer questions.
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So why is it when a vulnerability exists in OS X that REQUIRES THE USER TO DO SOMETHING, is OS X "Struck by Severe Security Hole", but when simply plugging a windoze box onto the net gets it infected is it just business as usual? A "severe" security hole to me is one in which no actions at all are required by the user (just having the machine on the net resulting in a compromise).
My first computer was an Apple Lisa. My dad bought one for the store that he managed, but it lived at home while he (and the kids) learned how to use it. I was probably 4 or 5 at the time. Once we got the computer, I stopped drawing on paper and would only draw on the computer (LisaDraw, and then later MacDraw and MacPaint). That probably explains why I can't draw freehand to this day. My dad also used to get all over me over the years for messing with the system settings, being so sure that I would screw something up. I never screwed anything up, but now he's the one who comes to me with computer questions.