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Originally Posted by rudack
Time for a little education on Mac Viruses.
There are no known OS X Viruses in the wild. Apple offered 25k to the first hacker who could write one that has an executable code that attaches itself to a program or file, just as the viruses do in Windows and spread. To this date the prize has not been claimed. There are hundreds of thousands of windows viruses and there are a handful of Mac OS 9 viruses but still none for OSX. This has nothing to do with popularity it has to do with the file system and kernel on the Mac OSX. (unix based). It’s is a well architected OS compared to windows. Is it unhackible? No.
Did you know Microsoft found a security hole in Windows 7 that has been in their OS since 1995? Let me type that again…. 1995…. This just goes to show you that MS just builds crap on top of crap. Lip stick on a pig. Look at Windows 7 - It is windows vista with a few enhancements and a fix for UAC. Yay. Get back to me when they launch WinFS… Been waiting 8 years already.
Viruses on the whole are on the way down. Trojans and Spyware is where it is at these days and 99.9% of the time it is because of the browser and not the OS and IE is just a pig....  |
Wow... just wow... where do you get this stuff? If you're going to "educate" people, please use actual facts instead of BS you read on some Apple forum.
That contest was done by DVForge in 2005 and was cancelled before it started.
Yes, a really old bug was recently found that affected all versions of Windows since the NT days. But did you know that a
25yr old bug
was found in all variants of BSD, including OSX? This kind of stuff exists in all modern operating systems. In fact, there's more vulnerabilities in OSX found each year than in Windows.
AND Microsoft releases patches for them faster than Apple does for OSX. Look at OSX Snow Leopard... it's just Leopard with a few enhancements. WinFS was scrapped years ago as it proved to be a lofty goal that was unattainable. Several of the developments did make it to SQL server and some of their other products though.
I challenge you to spend some time using Facebook chat in IE8 then do the same in Firefox. See which one works better for ya.
Come back with some actual facts next time, will ya?
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Originally Posted by The_Blur
Let's add to this point. A lot of people claim that the reason there are more hackers working Microsoft viruses than Apple viruses is that Microsoft is more popular. This is a great point. A virus on Windows would do far more potential damage to the overall community simply because more people could be victims. This, however, operates on an assumption: that hackers are motivated by doing damage alone. If I were a hacker, I would be highly motivated to work toward a $25,000 prize or simply to be the first to break the uninfected Macintosh. It would be computer history, and enough money to start saving for a car and a home or, if I were a hacker, a supercomputer I guess.
Windows has been very much the same for a very long time. Each new release adds features to the already feature-packed operating system. This is no disrespect. Microsoft computers can do everything Apple computers can do. Can they do everything with the same resources? Can they do everything for as long, as quickly, and as frequently?
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I already ruined that whole '25,000 challenge' thing. One only needs to look at the PWN2OWN competition held each year to know how BS this is anyways. But the reason isn't that hackers want to do damage alone, it's to make the most money. What's better, 100 spam bots or 10,000? You can't DDoS someone with 100 macs. There's much more ways to make money than just some stupid prize that never even happened.
And yes, they can. Most windows computers ship with MUCH less hardware resources than your average Apple computer. Yet, most still run just fine.