Just read a bunch of the stories on the web about “20 zero-day security holes in Mac OS X to be revealed”.
It amazes me that no one questions this junk!
The security industry only makes money if people are scared!
They have good reason to fear the wider adoption of OSX, it is more secure than Windows as long as Windows maintains the level of backwards compatibility – like XP mode in Win 7. They can sandbox Windows compatibility mode but there will still be problems with the old API’s that MS used to do inter app communications.
Mac OSX unlike Windows is based on Unix and was designed with multi-user security from day one – Windows still has legacy of single user operating system.
No software is bug free or totally safe, but to say in any way that OSX is less secure than Windows is simply not true.
The fact is not that there are legions of bad guys trying to steel from your computer – is a a media hyped – security industry backed – hysteria. The majority of threats on window are made my script puppy amateur hackers who do it to prove they can, it’s a right of passage. And they target windows because it is easy, it does not take deep programing insight or knowledge – all it takes a simple scripting.
The real story is simply not told, as there is no one who wants the story to be told.
Microsoft does not want to admit that they have the problem and they want to sell the updates to try and wall off their problems.
The IT industry makes too much money from the need to have the high priests protect the Corporate computer infrastructure. Many jobs would be in jeopardy if everyone was not scared about how to keep their company safe from infection.
The security industry’s whole business model is baed on the fear of viruses and malware.
I have had an OSX Server machine on the internet as a server for more than 5 years without a problem, with out a external firewall simply using regular Apple updates. My last Windows server could not stay online for more than a week without the need to deal with security problems. Windows can not do that and never will until they completely rewrite it. I have also had Unix boxes up for years with out a problem. Since the days of NT4 I have not been able to keep a Windows machine on the net for more than a few months without a problem of some sort – it is designed to need full IT support!