Buy a Mac and say goodbye to patching Windows

[Sysman]

http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/securit...9234678,00.htm

Date of publication: 25 January 2006

"The only thing which has kept Mac OS X relatively safe up until now is the fact that the market share is significantly lower than that of Microsoft Windows or the more common UNIX platforms.… If this situation was to change, in my opinion, things could be a lot worse on Mac OS X than they currently are on other operating systems, regarding security vulnerabilities," said Archibald.

Pure bollux. Windows comes with too many services enabled by default. With OS X you have to specifically enable them.

http://news.zdnet.co.uk/security/0,1...9285954,00.htm

Apple issued four security updates on Thursday to fix flaws in Mac OS X and iChat identified by the Month of Apple Bugs project.

Proof of concept flaws only. And fixed already.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4739432.stm

Experts have uncovered a serious security hole in the way Apple software handles downloaded files.
The flaw could give malicious attackers a back door into Mac computers if users visit carefully crafted websites and download booby-trapped files.

Publication date: Wednesday, 22 February 2006

http://blog.washingtonpost.com/secur...60_seco_1.html

"Hijacking a Macbook in 60 Seconds or Less"

Publication date: By Brian Krebs | August 2, 2006

I could go on, there seems to be hundreds of flaws. If it wasn't for the fact that no one uses Macs, I think you'd find it has more holes than a Swiss cheese.

Plenty of people have been trying: http://projects.info-pull.com/moab/

No doubt it's all Microsofts fault.

You said it

[mcquiggd]

Funny how the one article you didn't mention the 'publication date' for was... published yesterday....

http://news.zdnet.co.uk/security/0,1...9285954,00.htm

4 more bugs fixed - found by the Month of Apple Bugs website.


MOAB - Nice to see someone paying attention to the flaws in other OS / applications instead of smugly deriding Microsoft.

[Cowboy Bob]

If you go to the MOAB website you'll see that at least some of those bugs are actually in 3rd party applications - OmniWeb, VLC, APE, Flip4Mac (which is actually an MS product for Mac). Number 6 is even a "design flaw" in the current PDF specifiation.

[Sysman]

Funny how the one article you didn't mention the 'publication date' for was... published yesterday....

http://news.zdnet.co.uk/security/0,1...9285954,00.htm

4 more bugs fixed - found by the Month of Apple Bugs website.

But I gave you the address of the MOAB site in return

MOAB - Nice to see someone paying attention to the flaws in other OS / applications instead of smugly deriding Microsoft.

Some people obviously like a real challenge.

[mcquiggd]

Seems like it wasn't too difficult...

[Spacecadet]

everytime i see this thread title i feel hungry