-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 6/10/10 16:58 , Casper Bang wrote: >> To be very honest, one advantage for Mac is the security. Windows >> is very prone to attacks. > > Yes, in much the same way as an intercontinental flight between US > and Europe is more prone to terrorist attacks than a regional > flight on Greenland. There are simply more attack vectors and a > higher reward. (There's over 1 million PC's shipped a day vs. less > than 1 million Mac's shipped a month.)
While this is for sure a relevant part of the problem, I personally think there is anyway a difference in favor to Mac OS X. For instance, my last experience with Windows XP (*) is that if you don't have an antivirus you're going to catch one in a very short time, while on Mac OS X you can live without (**). (*) While I have Windows 7 installed on my MacBook Pro, and sometimes run it for testing, and it's without antivirus, I never run it when I'm not behind my office firewall, and I don't read email with it. So I can't say whether it's more secure than Windows XP. I stil remember a scary experience with Windows XP of possibly 3/4 years ago, while I was reinstalling it from scratch (from a disk without any SP) and connecting it to the internet (at home, but with the firewall erroneously down) to upgrade, I caught a virus immediately. (**) It's also to be discussed whether MAc OS X users trust their o.s. too much. Actually, I think that more casual-user Mac OS X systems could have been compromised than it's known, and I think it would be a good idea to run an antivirus there too. But on the overall, my perception is that there are so many less incidents on MAc OS X that they can' be explained only with the spread difference. If somebody has got the (normalized) numbers, I'd be interested. - -- Fabrizio Giudici - Java Architect, Project Manager Tidalwave s.a.s. - "We make Java work. Everywhere." java.net/blog/fabriziogiudici - www.tidalwave.it/people [email protected] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.14 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkwRJooACgkQeDweFqgUGxd8FQCgkj83E6VAGcGTQT24+THr+GbA oCAAnRMTOz1B4mo+0f9FGeJGci0lXPHx =1cDR -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
