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Story: OSX 'at risk from attack'

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Symantec is just concerned about their profits. They don't have much in the way of anything outside the viral wasteland that Windows is.

The question is who are the security researchers that Symantec is quoting about the 37 serious vulnerabilities in MacOS X that were 'discovered' last year? What are those serious vulnerabilities? Are they viruses? Are they worms? Or were they vulnerabilities covered by updates to the OS that Apple has already patched?

This article sounds more like they are trying to equate security vulnerabilities with chronic virus or a worm vulnerabilities like those that Windows has. They are trying to inspire fear in the Mac-using population to by their products, when all they really need to do is use Software Update that is already in MacOS X.

Symantec needs to back up their claims, rather than spewing generalities and making invalid comparisons.

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