From: Robert Benschop (rbenschop_at_euronet.nl)
Date: Mon Sep 22 2003 - 00:25:02 PDT
Peter H. Coffin wrote:
> RedHat's got no holes, and no rootkits? There's more viruses for
> Windows
> for the same reasons that there's more Palm software being written
> these
> days. It's about market size, not quality of the platform. Macintoshes
> got viruses back when Apple had 15% of the market. Now Apple doesn't
> have that, so Macs don't get viruses written to exploit them. There's
> no
> news in it, and little point, when about the same amount of effort can
> get ten times the number of targets vectoring through Windows.
I never said anything that would suggest the contrary. I would always
for the smaller platform if it meant less virii.
(Now is that true? would I switch to Windows if the Mac was constantly
attacked? Let's reconsider.. ;-)
Robert Benschop
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