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Story: OSX 'at risk from attack'
Posted by: Carl Vander Bee (Tuesday 22 March 2005, 3:23 PM)
It is true that all operating systems are at risk of attack and the number of successful attacks do increase when compared to platform market share. But as a systems administrator for both the Windows and Macintosh platform it is plain to see what OS is the easiest to exploit. It's the same OS that is the most difficult to support and the same OS that has the most problems aside from hackers and viruses. The core of the OS and the firmware that it runs on is what will consistently make an OS vulnerable or not. Yes, there will be increasing attacks on OSX and yes, some will be successful. But I will always put my money on the company that that makes the software and the hardware it runs on.
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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
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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 -
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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