MS= 7,944, OS X = 0

PCs Windows Infected in 12 Minutes

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July 05

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About the Author, Dan Cameron:

I'm the owner and solution engineer at Sprout Venture, a web solutions company that specializes in web development including WordPress.

I started my first blog in 2003 and transitioned to WordPress in 2004. Since moving to WordPress I've written a few plugins and themes for public consumption. Lately I'm busy engineering/building/coding and have only been able to share a few code snippets.

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  • nstryker
    i've always been bi-compual.
  • Dave Z
    Mr. S. don't go to the dark side, Macs are so dial-up.
  • Dave Z
    sorry Mr. S., only hippies and Dan can use the mac.
  • nstryker
    and nathan sometimes...now
  • Dave Z
    Maybe you and Steve Jobs are the only mac users left.
  • No, Apple's implementation does.
  • Nate
    What! unix has design flaws? Bah.
  • properly configured Windows or Mac computer will not be vulnerable to infection when it is connected to the network, whereas the "average" setup of either operating system is vulnerable to attacks on a number of levels. The Mac default is certainly better than the Windows one, but it's not perfect, and given more interest by the people writing these kinds of applications would probably be just as infected.

    Anyway, Dan here's a link to a good security guide for OSX, from the NSA. They have similar ones for the Windows operating systems as well; they're pretty interesting reading if you're into that sort of thing.
  • nstryker
    does that really prove that it's "less secure"? does security only have to exist programatically? not that i'm a huge fan of security through obscurity.
  • I guess I'm going to have to start writing some Mac viruses to dispel the misconception that statistics like this can create. The Mac OS (out of the box) suffers from most of the same security design flaws that Windows does, it just isn't as big a target, so people don't waste their time writing for it if their goal is to hit as many computers as they can.
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