I can also say Windows platform is the most-attacked OS by virus and malware. It's just a sign of it being popular
On Oct 22, 10:50 am, Karsten Silz <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > A Microsoft employee blogged that three (patched!) security holes now > make Java the most attacked (third-party?) software on Windows, going > from about 500k attacks in Q2 to about 6 mill. in Q3. This compares > to less than 100k attacks against Adobe > Reader:http://blogs.technet.com/b/mmpc/archive/2010/10/18/have-you-checked-t... > > This is Microsoft and only includes data from Windows machines with > Microsoft anti-malware software, so I take it with a big grain of > salt. For instance, Flash had a couple of patches for security holes, > too - didn't anybody attack this? > > If the data is true, however, then the interesting thing is that those > security holes have been patched a while ago, suggesting that the JRE > auto update functionality doesn't work well enough - or too many > people use an older JRE/JDK. > > Between the security holes in Flash, Adobe Reader and Java, I can see > Steve Jobs smile somewhere. ;-) -- 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.
