As the recent adobe issues revealed all OS’s are vulnerable.
“As the recent adobe issues revealed all OS’s are vulnerable.”
Yes, but some are more vulnerable than others.
Why is it that my computers at work are always getting viruses? Over and over again. But, after 20 years of computing on Macs, I have never gotten a virus.
Nor have any of my Apple using friends.
Dammit, driftdiver, you got my goat with that piece of silliness. Any reasonable person already knew that all complex software is vulnerable long before the recent adobe issues. OTOH, your statement is freakin' meaningless in this context, if you evaluate the numbers.
Infected computers on the internet are a Windows problem. Trying to smear other OSes will not make that problem go away. I assume you're trying to smear Macs, since the number of Linux and Unix machines is nearly negligible by comparison.
Now please, read this bearing in mind that I am a very satisfied user of Win7 for the past year or more, at home and at work. I'm not trashing Windows, per se, just pointing out that this is a Windows problem.
Note that the total Windows PCs outnumber the total Macs by roughly 10:1.
Note that the zombie Windows PCs outnumber the zombie Macs by (oh I don't know, let's guess) 50,000,000:1
About, oh, maybe 5,000,000:1.
all OS’s are vulnerable
BTW, if you have figures for the above that you like better than my estimates, please supply them.
Fact is, there aren't any Mac botnets in the wild. The one seemingly credible report some months back was quickly found to have been cooked up by a rogue anti-virus employee, who when pressed admitted he didn't have any actual evidence. Every such "finding" of virus-laden Macs has turned out to be bogus propaganda from the AV vendors.
Of course, there are trojans and such that affect Mac users using social engineering; everyone knows that the weak link in a Mac system, like any other system, is the user.
But if you think you know of a true Mac virus -- self-replicating, capable of spreading itself around the internet without the user being aware -- name it and provide links to where it is described by a reputable source.
Essentially the same thing is true of Linux and BSD Unix.
Zombie Macs in botnets spewing crap over the internet? In your dreams, maybe.
Face it, the problem is a Windows problem. As such, Microsoft is in a good position to make the recommendation that infected PCs should be pulled off the internet.
As a satisfied Win7 user, I would like to see all prior versions of Windows (including Vista) upgraded to Win7, and have at least MS Security Essentials installed. That alone would address 99% of the Windows botnet problems.