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Then I decided to create non-administrator accounts for others and keep all administration to myself.
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This state of affairs in the MS world is an unimaginable scandal that has thankfully bypassed *nix vendorsīefore 2 years ago I used to rebuild our family WinXP PC every 4 months because of all the crud that accumulates on it over time.
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The biggest reason Virus writers can write and propagate their ware easily on Windows is that 99% of Windows users (at least the ones I know) run their PC as root (administrator). People write Windows viruses because they CAN and Microsoft ALLOWS them to because in the Windows dominated world there is no financial upside to actually locking down the OS. People feel justified in attacks aginsed MS or anything that makes them look bad.īunch of horse manure. Spend any amount of time on osnews/digg/slashdot and you’ll see what I meen. apps written against unix api rather than Carbon/Cocoa api).ġ)People hate Microsoft, and not just a little bit, but foaming at the mouth MS is evil yada yada.
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The security flaws are mainly in the Cocoa and Carbon layers (which are the layers that most Mac apps use Mac users generally don’t run unix apps (i.e. You know, the stuff that makes a Mac a Mac as oppopsed to just one more *nix sytem. Apple’s Security Updates mainly concern the goodies that Apple put on top of that unix core. Regarding the security of the unix core, that’s not the issue wrt OSX.
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But it wouldn’t spread much outside of that community for the reasons stated above.īTW, I remember seeing a site a few years ago that had code samples for AppleScript email viruses that used the Address Book’s AppleScript dictionary interface to obtain the contacts, and then used Mail.app’s AppleScript interface to mail copies of itself to those contacts, so it’s not like it’s impossible to make a Mac email virus.
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Now, if there were some community where everyone was running Macs, then Mac-specific virus could indeed spread like wildfire through that community (particularly since Mac users don’t run anti-malware software (I know that I don’t something I’d never consider with my Windows machine). So it’s very hard to spread Mac malware around. So once the virus emails or IMs itself to my contacts, the propagation ceases because the virus, being a Mac-specific package, cannot run on my contacts’ machines. If someone writes a Mac-specific email or IM virus, and I receive it, and run it, then the virus will do whatever damage it will, and then email or IM itself to my contacts. And, let’s take my own Mac as a potential target. Let’s take an “email virus” or “IM virus” as examples. Maybe small marketshare isn’t the reason that nobody exploits them, but it’s certainly not that the system is unexploitable.īut I do maintain that low marketshare plays a role. In 2006 they were less frequent, but were massive updates (IIRC, one fixed over 40 flaws and two others fixed over 20 each). In 2005 there was an average of one per month. What I know is that over the years, Apple has released nearly as many Security Updates as Microsoft. I’m not going to deny that Macs are targetted, however to say that they are targetted even close to as much as Windows is plain wrong. This guy is just a fanatic with more emotion than fact frankly. Especially since XP has been audited completely to prevent this kind of thing in future OSes. The OS was built when security was not as big a deal as it has become recently, albiet it was a stupid move and not an excuse it’s hardly fair to write it off as a “shaky ground”. This is the position that Microsoft is in now.”Īnd what is this “shaky ground” he talks about? The NT kernel? Given that most of the XP exploits were buffer overflows in applications or components with XP I don’t see how this makes sense? “If an OS is built on shaky ground, everything layered on top will suffer.
Not for the ego, sure Linux/BSD viruses or exploits are nice but right now the cash crop is Windows due to the amount of businesses and homes using it. Suddenly he knows what most “virus authors and hackers” are like? I don’t know but if I were a hacker I’d write an exploit to.gee I don’t know.exploit something.
“Given that most virus authors and hackers are in it for the ego, don’t you think that there would be a huge incentive to be the first one to write a widespread OS X, Linux, or FreeBSD virus?” So because someone took the time to write a virus for ipodLINUX(emphasis on Linux), that means that Mac suddenly becomes more targetted by hackers? Am I the only one who fails to see the logic there? “Given that there are probably only a few hundred - maybe a thousand - iPods running Linux out there, the fact that someone took the time to write this virus, or malicious code is an example of why Apple detractors clamoring that Macs aren’t a target due to the lower market share are all wet.”
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