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Story: OSX 'at risk from attack'
Posted by: Tor Sigurdsson (Tuesday 22 March 2005, 11:28 AM)
Unfortuantely ( and expectedly ) the virus mongers on the PC side of the pond always choose not to mention the differehces in design of the platforms they see as the "next big thing" in virus distribution.
Windows is a swamp full of holes, and the only building blocks Microsoft has to offer to cover these holes is rotten wood. See how that helps you... Symantec, Sophos and others only offer safety nets to cover the holes. Albeit a tad better than the rotten wood, your feet will still get wet.
UNIX ( and lookalikes - Linux, Mac OS X etc ) are rocky ground. Sure, there are holes as well. Not as many. Some equally deep, and some truly shallow. But the real difference is that you get cement to fill up the holes. There is no need for patchwork corporations that live and feed on the fears of the common user as is in the windows world. The only thing needed is awareness from software vendors. And there is a lot of that.
The true solution to the viral problems of Windows is to switch to another platform ( software and/or hardware ).
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Story: OSX 'at risk from attack'
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Failing of course to mention that yes- although vi... Paul Munro -
Attack does not equal vulnerability, except on Win... Olav Petri
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(1) Symantec is in the business of selling protect... Joseppi Blauinski
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This is just such a load of self-serving crap ...... Anonymous
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Total nonsense. Yes, of course as OSX grows mark... Anonymous
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When a company that sells anti-virus software anno... Ken Cox
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Symantec writes to worst software for the Mac in e... advocate
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What's Symantec's Anti-Virus for Mac going to... Ben Welsh -
They're right, but only in a trivial sense -- sinc... Laird Popkin
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What a load of FUD. Anyone with the smallest sence... Anonymous
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Unfortuantely ( and expectedly ) the virus mongers... Tor Sigurdsson -
What a load of cobblers.
A couple of years back I... Mac Guru
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Ziff Davis continues to embarrass themselves with... Anon E. Mouse
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Symantec is just concerned about their profits. T... Evan Marshall
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It is true that all operating systems are at risk... Carl Vander Bee
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They are desperate because MS is about to put them... Ryan Gray
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Has this guy ever seen a computer? what a tool! BMX BANDIT
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There are some cases where it actually is ver... Kevin Trumbull
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Windows user sees b.s. I don't buy the hype and wo... Anonymous
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In other news, if you run Windows you run the risk... Vermine
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