Comments on: Is Windows (XP and Vista) five times as secure as Mac OS X? http://4sysops.com/archives/is-windows-xp-and-vista-five-times-as-secure-as-mac-os-x/ For Windows Administrators Fri, 19 Mar 2010 19:02:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: Michael http://4sysops.com/archives/is-windows-xp-and-vista-five-times-as-secure-as-mac-os-x/comment-page-1/#comment-39424 Michael Thu, 27 Dec 2007 20:40:59 +0000 http://4sysops.com/archives/is-windows-xp-and-vista-five-times-as-secure-as-mac-os-x/#comment-39424 Haha Dave. That’s real funny. I never heard of Tony Clifton. It seems like I am not the only one who took this story seriously. http://blogs.ittoolbox.com/security/dmorrill/archives/fake-steve-jobs-smack-down-21393 http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/12/22/2039248&from=rss Or are these fakes too? But to be honest, I have no doubts that Apple is capable of something like this. Alan, do you really believe that Apple is more transparent? Besides, you also have to take into account that the majority of hackers, and also the best among them, concentrate on cracking Windows and not Mac OS. And if they succeed they usually don’t report it to Microsoft. Many of them just want to get famous and so they prefer to publish it within their hacker community or, even worse, somewhere on the Web. Merry Christmas and Happy new year, too. Haha Dave. That’s real funny. I never heard of Tony Clifton. It seems like I am not the only one who took this story seriously.
http://blogs.ittoolbox.com/security/dmorrill/archives/fake-steve-jobs-smack-down-21393
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/12/22/2039248&from=rss
Or are these fakes too? But to be honest, I have no doubts that Apple is capable of something like this.

Alan, do you really believe that Apple is more transparent? Besides, you also have to take into account that the majority of hackers, and also the best among them, concentrate on cracking Windows and not Mac OS. And if they succeed they usually don’t report it to Microsoft. Many of them just want to get famous and so they prefer to publish it within their hacker community or, even worse, somewhere on the Web. Merry Christmas and Happy new year, too.

]]> By: The Open Sourcerer http://4sysops.com/archives/is-windows-xp-and-vista-five-times-as-secure-as-mac-os-x/comment-page-1/#comment-39212 The Open Sourcerer Wed, 26 Dec 2007 18:47:33 +0000 http://4sysops.com/archives/is-windows-xp-and-vista-five-times-as-secure-as-mac-os-x/#comment-39212 If you read Secunia's website - it would seem that they don't actually "discover" the vulnerabilities themselves but rely, largely it seems, on manufacturers reporting the bugs to them. Perhaps, as OS X is largely based on Open Source code, it is this transparency that provides the data. Microshaft are not exactly well known for being honest and transparent are they? But I agree with your general conclusion about which OS is more or less secure. I don't agree that Microsoft are getting better - I guess that they just don't report half of what they know... Secondly, as OS X is based on a a "real" multi-user OS (unix/Linux/BSD) there is significantly less chance of a virus/malware/trojan being propagated from one machine to another - hence why so few hackers even bother to try. Hope you had a Good Christmas Michael, Happy New Year too :-) Alan If you read Secunia’s website – it would seem that they don’t actually “discover” the vulnerabilities themselves but rely, largely it seems, on manufacturers reporting the bugs to them. Perhaps, as OS X is largely based on Open Source code, it is this transparency that provides the data. Microshaft are not exactly well known for being honest and transparent are they?

But I agree with your general conclusion about which OS is more or less secure. I don’t agree that Microsoft are getting better – I guess that they just don’t report half of what they know…

Secondly, as OS X is based on a a “real” multi-user OS (unix/Linux/BSD) there is significantly less chance of a virus/malware/trojan being propagated from one machine to another – hence why so few hackers even bother to try.

Hope you had a Good Christmas Michael, Happy New Year too :-)

Alan

]]> By: Dave http://4sysops.com/archives/is-windows-xp-and-vista-five-times-as-secure-as-mac-os-x/comment-page-1/#comment-39204 Dave Wed, 26 Dec 2007 17:51:01 +0000 http://4sysops.com/archives/is-windows-xp-and-vista-five-times-as-secure-as-mac-os-x/#comment-39204 The real evil empire? Um...did you notice who his lawyer was in the story? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Clifton The real evil empire? Um…did you notice who his lawyer was in the story?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Clifton

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