Re: New Patch Fixes 43 Flaws In OS X, Many Serious

"GreyCloud" <mist@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Josh McKee wrote:
How?

If you don't know that, then you really shouldn't be asking.
windows viruses: 114,000+ OS X viruses: 0
Speaks for itself.

This is, I think, a strong argument that Mac OS X *is not*
resistant to viruses or anything like that.

If it *were*, Mac advocates would know all about it and
would tell us what Apple does right, or what Microsoft does
wrong, the produces these numbers. [1]

But they do not. They point to the much, much higher
incidence of malware on Windows, and leave it at
that.

It must be something exogenous to the product itself;
it may be the Mac's very low marketshare, or perhaps
some charactaristics of the users who use Macs.

[1] Slightly inaccurate numbers, by the way. Mac advocates
routinely deny the reality of Mac OS X malware when it
is found; but it has happened (on rare occasions) for all
that.


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