The day will probably come. It would be foolish to believe that someone
won't find a way to write a virus for the Mac. However, chances are that
it's in no way going to be to the extent that even the most basic hacker can
write viruses for Windows.
I agree that MS is slowly improving things, but the problem is that the
architecture itself, unless they completely rewrite the OS, is always going
to be prone to such attacks. Additionally, there are inherent philosophies
of MS from an overall business perspective that will leave them to such
vulnerabilities. What I mean here, for example, is the entire Passport
network and how it is tied to the OS itself. There have been plenty of
articles indicating how that whole marriage can be exploited.
However, we digress from Mac and the VoiceOver.
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Subject: Re: game over
My opinion on this as a Windows System Administrator on a 100,000 plus user
network and one of my primary duties is security is.
Windows suffers from many problems not the least being market share.
It is just much more attractive for any malware developer to develop for
Windows. Hey, just like any software developer, they often choose the
platform with the highest market share.
Also Windows does and always had some really big security holes. Like IIS,
like Office. There have been some very bad design decisions in the past by
MS. Those are slowly being changed, but slowly.
Then third I strongly feel that the average Mac user is of a much higher
skill level than the average Windows user. I am not offending anyone, we are
talking the average.
I've always shuddered when an apple employee would say, "we never get
viruses". It's foolish to say never. There have been some exploits, but they
generally are laughable. But I wouldn't be shocked to wake up some morning
and hear of a real threat.
Do I run anti-virus software on my Macs, HELL NO.:-) Do I suggest it to
other Mac users, at this time, no. But maybe someday.
