How often do you hear about viruses on winmo? It's not a theory that OS X is as susceptible to viruses and trojans as windows, it's proven. It's only holdout MFBs that have a hard time with truth.
On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 9:49 AM, TPiwowar <t...@tjpa.com> wrote: > On Aug 9, 2009, at 11:03 AM, Wayne Dernoncourt wrote: > >> Now it looks like places have switched WRT the phone markets. In >> the desktop/laptop markets, MS had most of the headaches. In the >> phone markets, it now looks like Apple has that role (the hack from >> BlackHat with SMS messages taking over your phone). Someone else >> found a similiar vulnerability with WM phones, but it does seem >> like the iPhone market has become a big target for the bad guys. >> > > This is a good scientific experiment to test the claim that Windows has so > many viruses infecting it only because it is so popular. > > My take is that Windows has so many viruses infecting it because it is > poorly engineered. > > If you check the Wild List you will see that there are 100s of active, > circulating viruses that can attack Windows and we have to add anti-virus > software to watch for them. > > For the iPhone (which runs a variant of OS X) we have had a few > vulnerabilities discovered which Apple has quickly fixed. There are no > active viruses circulating in the wild. There never have been. > > So can we put the attacked due to popularity myth down now? > > > > > > ************************************************************************* > ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** > ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** > ************************************************************************* > ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
