From: Mark Ross (markr13_at_comcast.net)
Date: Sun Oct 10 2004 - 15:17:05 PDT
>> On Oct 10, 2004, at 10:58 AM, Edmund Blackadder wrote:
>>> I cannot see a virus outbreak for OS X, or any *nix, in general...
>>
>> Try opening your eyes.
>
...................
> Of course.. BUT again... Applescript is fundamentally different form
> VB. VB is a huge security risk. Applescript not. If you study the
> technology of each.. you will understand why..
>
> The fact is: I run my OS X machine with virtually no protection. I had
> no incident of malware. My girlfriend runs her Wintel box with all
> kinds of protection. She takes care not to open attachments mails etc.
> And still gets infected with malware.
>
> If you like to think that in the future Unix will be as insecure as
> Windows..thats fine.. But you will dissapointed cause this will not
> happen :-)
>
To add my two cents: NuShield runs its business on Mac OS X with only a
hardware firewall and NO virus protection at all and we have done so
for over 6 years. We get hit with as many as 15 virus attacks per day.
They just don't run on Unix variants. As a primarily email business, we
have our email address in many thousands of places. While I monitor the
Mac news boards for this issue, I have yet to find any exploit in the
wild that affects this OS. Why you wish to conclude this is so is up to
you. However, I can't imagine the grief that I'd have if this were on
Windows boxes.
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