Microsoft Windows XP has one year to live

[Denniss]

You grossly underestimate the malware floating arounf for Macs - just like Android it's growing and growing. The only plus is that Apple usually gets updates faster installed than Android users (they often required their hardware manufacturer to pass the updates to them and this often takes far too long).

[MrRiplEy[H]]

You grossly underestimate the malware floating arounf for Macs - just like Android it's growing and growing. The only plus is that Apple usually gets updates faster installed than Android users (they often required their hardware manufacturer to pass the updates to them and this often takes far too long).

If there's such an amount of malware 'floating' for mac I'm sure you'll find a link or two that lists them.

[ACE]

Yes but the fact that still remains is that there are about 2 000 000 variations of different attacks for the windows platform in the wild and maybe 5 known ones for the mac. I like my odds on OSX.

Could you link that?  I am not doubting you at all I just want to read on it for myself. 

[MrRiplEy[H]]

Could you link that?  I am not doubting you at all I just want to read on it for myself. 

Link to what? You can find a gazillion hits for Windows malware and viruses from Google with your first search. For OSX .. well not so much.

[ACE]

Link to the statistics of what you posted.  The 2,000,000 types vs the 5.

[MrRiplEy[H]]

Link to the statistics of what you posted.  The 2,000,000 types vs the 5.

There is no single site that says so duh.

Google it up .. there are literally thousands of articles about it. The amount of windows viruses/malware surpassed 1 million already on 2008. Now there are 17+ million variants of known viruses http://www.zdnet.com/blog/bott/the-malware-numbers-game-how-many-viruses-are-out-there/4783

[guncrasher]

rippley you didn't read the article did you?



semp

[MrRiplEy[H]]

rippley you didn't read the article did you?



semp

Of course I did. Why would you say so?

[ACE]

In the first part of the reading it says that their is 17 million known viruses on Windows Android and Mac.  Then it says you would think that all those were aimed at Windows and you would be wrong. 

[MrRiplEy[H]]

In the first part of the reading it says that their is 17 million known viruses on Windows Android and Mac.  Then it says you would think that all those were aimed at Windows and you would be wrong. 

You should read a bit more on the subject and then try to interpret the text. Windows viruses count in the millions. Android viruses count in tens of thousands. OSX viruses count in around 10 or so. So no, all are not windows viruses. 

[Skuzzy]

You should read a bit more on the subject and then try to interpret the text. Windows viruses count in the millions. Android viruses count in tens of thousands. OSX viruses count in around 10 or so. So no, all are not windows viruses. 

You really think there are millions of viruses for Windows, which still have an active entry system?

You really think only 10 viruses have been created for OSX, since day one?

[ACE]

You really think there are millions of viruses for Windows, which still have an active entry system?

You really think only 10 viruses have been created for OSX, since day one?

Took the words out of my mouth..

[MrRiplEy[H]]

You really think there are millions of viruses for Windows, which still have an active entry system?

You really think only 10 viruses have been created for OSX, since day one?

Yes I really do. The world is full of unpatched systems and antiquated Windows versions so a large part of those viruses have an 'entry system'. We even had a customer who was using Win95 for business just a couple of years ago One point of entry is the moment of install due to Microsoft not supplying patched and updated installation medias without buying a new license.

The amount of 'in the wild' active viruses for OSX is around ten afaik. Feel free to prove me wrong. Even if it was 100 in reality it completely disappears in comparison to Windows viruses and malware.

[ACE]

My theory is that more people use Windows over Mac so therefore the number of Windows viruses will be higher.  Significantly. 

[MrRiplEy[H]]

My theory is that more people use Windows over Mac so therefore the number of Windows viruses will be higher.  Significantly. 

Of course. That's why it will always be statistically much safer to use non-mainstream OSes. They don't attract interest from criminals.

It's much more profitable to attack as system that 2 billion users use instead of a few millions.