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Blaster 2 attack in next couple of days.

In today's Wall Street Journal (Thursday Sept 18) US edition, page B1, there's an article discussing companies that are thinking about switching at least some of their servers away from Windows machines to protect against Day-Zero attacks. (Sorry, I couldn't find a link online).

So there's an interesting stat in the article:

"According to to Symantec Corp.,...more than 4,000 viruses and other forms of malicious code have been launched against Windows so far this year. Yet there have been no viruses or worms unleashed against Apple's Macintosh operating system since 2001."

Enough said.:cool:
 
Originally posted by stoid
The argument continues, is it the stability of the Mac OS, or the low percentage of market share that Apple holds??
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both are small factors. i think the big one is: virus/worm writers hate gates & MS.
 
I remember reading somewhere that most viruses/worms are developed on UNIX machines (to run on windows)...So it seems like if the wanted to develop viruses for OS X they could...I think it's just not worth their time.
 
i wouldn't be surprised if there was a good deal of competativeness -- first to exploit a flaw, fastest propogation, most damage, most machines infected, etc.

so the combination of having a huge install base, the least-savvy users-cum-admins, and the most flawed OS would be the trifecta.
 
Originally posted by zimv20
both are small factors. i think the big one is: virus/worm writers hate gates & MS.
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I had a IT person tell me that the actual first virus was developed for the Mac. With all the security problems with Windows, it certainly makes me wonder why the banks would want to switch ther ATM software to Windows! :confused:
 
Originally posted by stoid
The argument continues, is it the stability of the Mac OS, or the low percentage of market share that Apple holds??
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No, Apple has a low market share, but it doesn't have no market share. I'm sure there must be enterprising young Mac users out there who would love to make a name for themselves by unleashing a Mac virus. But the fact that there have been no viruses for Mac OS X seems to indicate that the issue is security, not market share.
 
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