Surprise! New CRITICAL flaw in MS Explorer!

Thanks for looking out for people, Stephen. I don't even feel smug anymore for choosing to use a mac and hearing things like this again. I'm just disgusted Gates won't fix his POS operating system.
 
Ranchu said:
Thanks for looking out for people, Stephen. I don't even feel smug anymore for choosing to use a mac and hearing things like this again.
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That's probably just as well. The only reason your mac is 'secure' is that nobody yet cares enough to target it. Every system in public use has exloitable flaws - Microsoft at least has to care about finding and fixing them.
 
ruby.monkey said:
That's probably just as well. The only reason your mac is 'secure' is that nobody yet cares enough to target it. Every system in public use has exloitable flaws - Microsoft at least has to care about finding and fixing them.
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If that tired old argument were true, then some hacker would do something to attack Macs just to show it can be done. The Mac OS is built on a Unix system that is widely used in industry and in web servers and no one has done much of anything against those system either. The fact is that Windows is less secure than anything else.
 
Chriscrawfordphoto said:
If that tired old argument were true, then some hacker would do something to attack Macs just to show it can be done. The Mac OS is built on a Unix system that is widely used in industry and in web servers and no one has done much of anything against those system either. The fact is that Windows is less secure than anything else.
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Be that as it may, it still doesn't mean that Mac OSX is 100% secure. While there aren't any viruses for Mac OSX it can still be infected with other web threats.
Any Windows user running a cheap anti-virus program is pretty well protected against viruses but the more common issue is spyware and malware. Mac OSX certainly is more secure than Windows but it doesn't mean Mac users can be careless.
 
Jamie123 said:
Be that as it may, it still doesn't mean that Mac OSX is 100% secure. While there aren't any viruses for Mac OSX it can still be infected with other web threats.
Any Windows user running a cheap anti-virus program is pretty well protected against viruses but the more common issue is spyware and malware. Mac OSX certainly is more secure than Windows but it doesn't mean Mac users can be careless.
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I've never once heard of any spyware or malware that infects OS-X. A windows user can protect himself against any kind of malware with the right security software; the problem is that stuff runs in the background and takes up memory and processor resources.
 
Memory and processor resources are cheap as chips; and a good AV system like Avast! runs in the background with minimal effect on system performance.

Be that as it may, I'm not trying to belittle OSX. The fact of the matter is that all current OSs that are well-enough featured to be worth using, are complex enough to contain exploitable flaws. Doesn't matter who wrote them or what methodology was used, humans and their tools are imperfect. One can either take the attitude of "Ha ha, nobody's targeting me so I don't have to care", or "Nobody has targeted me *yet*, but I'm still going to be careful".

(Except for us Linux users - everyone knows we're too cheap to be worth attacking)
 
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