Re: spyware on macs ?

Oxford wrote:
TheLetterK <theletterk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


so it's basically impossible (the way apple ships macs) for a virus to even enter a Mac, much less "spread". Thus, no viruses or spyware.

Oxtard, I think you need to go back on your medication. There aren't any viruses in the wild for OS X right now (I take it back, there are some Office macro viruses that target OS X), but mostly because hitting such a sparse userbase is exponentially more difficult than it is to hit Windows.


marketshare has very little to do with it,
Your right, marketshare is irrelivent. Share of the installed userbase, however, is everything.

Let's take a sample, shall we?

10000000000000010000

The zeros are Windows boxes, the ones are Macs. Now, which platform do you think is easier to target? Each victim you get will act as another carrier of the virus. Now, the Macs will have to connect with other Macs (a relatively rare event) to spread the virus--the Windows boxes, on the other hand, can pretty much just pick an active address at random and get a viable target.

the reason is far more technical in nature, 
Well, if you consider statistics to be 'technical'.

the fact is a good 15 million osx macs are connected to the net 24/7/365, so don't you think "one measly virus" would of infected the population by now? 
One did. The fake word installer virus.

OSX is designed differently than Windows of any version, 
Which does not imbue some magical immunity to viruses.

so it's basically impossible to remotely enter a mac,
Well, if you feel so secure, leave your Mac outside your firewall and post your IP addy for the world to see.

much less have a breach of one machine "spread" to others... it's a better system, deal with it. 
It's statistics, deal with it.



If a serious piece of spyware or "virus" was ever to infect a Mac it could only live 7 days, the default "update option on macs" there is some hints that Apple could even invoke a fix immediately if needed.

Unless the virus carried a serious payload.


That's a pretty big if... 
Not really.



So add all that up, then factor in the fact MS doesn't have a lot of skills in programming or os design and you can quickly see the situation windows users find themselves in... that's the story.

Microsoft's best coders: The admins over in the Linux labs.


nah, microsoft is design by committee, they don't have the time to manage linux machines
Nonsense, they run a Linux lab. It's a well known fact. Scouting out their opposition, and all.
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