On 10/31/2010 08:12 PM, Björnke von Gierke wrote:
It's probably about a yearly hacking contest, where boxes are setup and then
people are invited to hack them. Mac OS X did indeed succumb most quickly there
in the last few years. In addition there has been reports of one infection in
the wild that uses java, and is able to run on mac os as well as on windows.
Windows is protected by UAC, Antivirus, and windows defender. I'd argue that in
everyday environments, windows is actually better secured then mac os and maybe
on even footing with linux. On the flipside, it's also the most likely one to
be targeted. Because most infections for people like us come in randomly, the
risk of having a crisis is therefore far bigger on windows.
I do have a windows machine, and I consider it the insecure one, compared to my
unpatched mac os x server and my everyday machine. Linux is too hard to use
for me, so I can't comment much on that, beyond it probably not being the
target of anyone with it's almost inexistent market share among non-tech
oriented users.
The first thing I do when I install Mac OS X on a machine is enable the
ROOT account; that is dead easy;
especially as the Mac OS HELP system tells you how to do it. Set up the
FIREWALL, SHARING and so on.
Windows, on the other hand, starts telling you to fork out extra moolah
for anti-virus stuff . . .
On 31 Oct 2010, at 18:57, stephen barncard wrote:
Peter, where do you get these 'facts' about the security and vulnerability
of MacOS today? Your statement just doesn't match up with my experience with
the OS.
"Dead Duck?"
On 31 October 2010 02:22, Peter Alcibiades<[email protected]>wrote:
OSX is a dead duck almost right away, Windows
not long after, and Linux holds out longest. But I don't know what the
starting setup is on the windows installation.
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