Mike, slamming Apple's security by quoting security companies who sell security software for Windows is less than creditable to me. They are saying use Windows and buy our security software; don't switch to OS X and ignore us!
If they also sold security software for OS X (and had a creditable number of customers, reflecting the market), I might believe them. If their claims that Mac OS X (current versions - 10.4 and 10.5) are true, then why can't they make and sell security software to those users? There are plenty of companies selling software for OS X; why do none of them sell security software? Thank you, Mark Snyder -----Original Message----- So when mediadefender went to take down rev3 with a DoS attack, if they had been rich snobs they would have gone after only macs to set the attack up? Or would they realize that the DoS attack only works when you have a lot of machines sending data and go after the other 90% of systems out there to launch the attack? I don't have to convince anyone, it's just facts. Look at almost any security firm who measures medium to critical flaws among the os's and they all say the same thing, Apple lags far behind in fixing such flaws. They get away with it because these guys such as mediadefender need as many systems as they can get to attack. This last safari problem is a perfect example, MS was out saying they would fix the issue, Apple said we aren't fixing it. Now after some press articles and pressure from the community and MS, Apple has agreed to fix it. ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
