On Mon, 17 May 2004, Antonio Aparicio wrote: > John, nobody is bashing anyone. Calm down. We are just discussing the > merits of one OS over another. They are just tools/machines. Clearly > virus and spyware are more prevalent on the Windows OS thatn elswhere > PRECISELY because of the design of that OS. To date there have been > Zero, thats right a 0 viruses on Mac OSX for example.
They are plenty of published exploits for OS/X (google for "exploit os/x" if you want to see them). OS/X is largely built on top of FreeBSD which also has had it's fair share of exploits. No one has written a virus for it because it just isn't a very common platform. It wouldn't be hard to write a worm or virus which used the known exploits in FreeBSD (or the default services that install with it) but that hasn't been done yet either because it is even less common than OS/X. You do get additional security by using these less popular platforms, but in a odd catch-22 any additional use of them makes it more likely that they will be targetted by security vulnerabilities. I don't know what any of this has to do with pentax cameras. My *ist D doesn't run Windows, OS/X, or Linux to my knowledge. alex
