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You are safe from the hackers noticing your beloved little OS. Apple's marketshare will always hover at a pathetically low 5%. And it doesn't matter how many times you say marketshare is not related to vulnerabilities found and exploited. Saying it a million times over and over won't change it.

The fact that MS can release a patch today for a previously unknown vulnerability and tomorrow the hackers will have reverse engineered it and created an exploit should give you a clue. There is no way to patch 700 million Windows systems overnight. That leaves more than enough vulnerable systems to successfully spread such an attack. I don't even think if all Macs were left unpatched that there would be enough to spread a virus. The fact that hackers do not even bother to reverse engineer Apple's patches no matter how many severe holes Apple plugs up constantly should give you at least some kind of clue.

And your little Apache reference is laughable. Let's see, so you have, at every Apache server, some clueless surfer that goes to random websites, clicking on every interesting little link they find? All while the server is not firewalled and locked down? Uhm, no, it should be clear that you can't compare the two. They work in vastly different environments. Let's stick OS X on 700 million desktops and see if fall to pieces. Oh, I forgot, Steve Jobs is too pathetic to get the Mac to anywhere over 5% marketshare.

One day, if/when Apple ever plays in the same arena as the Big Boys, maybe then we can talk. Until then it just a wanna-be OS that has MS's bootprints all over its face.

Now go back to your little troll cave, these here internets are for the big boys...
Posted by: Qbt   Posted on: 10/02/06 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use
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"Appears" to have been written before the patch?  Ken_z | 10/02/06
It is a good thing  Qbt | 10/02/06
making people think . . .  brian ansorge | 10/02/06
You are safe...  Qbt | 10/02/06
Oh gawd [rolling eyes] . . . here we go again  brian ansorge | 10/02/06
arketshare  galileon | 10/02/06
According to all the research ...  ShadeTree | 10/03/06
"these here internets are for the big boys..."  rafe01 | 10/03/06
Internets?!  Rocketdude | 10/03/06
Awesome!  tic swayback | 10/03/06
such a dumb argument...  doctorSpoc | 10/03/06
A myth. I agree.  xuniL_z | 10/03/06
Not so......  Laff | 10/03/06
"can only be exploited by a logged-in user"  georgep_z | 10/03/06
*** for Tat  wjkahlssmd@... | 10/03/06
Some of that MIGHT have been valid pre MacTels and Parallels or boot camp  Laff | 10/03/06
Not So Fast  wjkahlssmd@... | 10/03/06
Just as fast... (OT)  Fred Fredrickson | 10/03/06
Neck and Ankle  wjkahlssmd@... | 10/03/06
Hmmmm I guess I was considering the NEXT or upgrae purchase  Laff | 10/03/06
fast  wacho | 10/03/06
OEM Licenses of XP are only good valid for the box ...  ShadeTree | 10/03/06
I would like someone to try and get back to me.  Laff | 10/03/06
Easy to get back to you.  ShadeTree | 10/04/06
Jsut talked to one of my PC guy...  Laff | 10/04/06
Good luck with that P2P activation key.  ShadeTree | 10/04/06
A lot but not all?  Laff | 10/04/06
not a fair comparison...  doh123 | 10/03/06
Unfortunately Apple does not offer stripped down models  MacGeek2121 | 10/04/06
People are just tinkering and learning  Boot_Agnostic | 10/03/06
Another Problem - Now with OSuX  jpr75_z | 10/03/06
Let me ask you this then  Shelendrea | 10/03/06
My Beemer . . .  brian ansorge | 10/03/06
What gets me the most about these ignorant MS shills .  I'm Ye, the MS SHILL . | 10/03/06
If you had looked before you posted ...  ShadeTree | 10/03/06
So is it really as simple as being black and white?  Laff | 10/03/06
Look in the mirror ...  ShadeTree | 10/03/06
I do look in the mirror and find it hard to pull away...such a good  Laff | 10/03/06
I don't find men that attractive but ...  ShadeTree | 10/04/06
Perhaps..but for the life of me I don't see myself as being  Laff | 10/04/06
Depends  rapson | 10/03/06
Oops  rapson | 10/03/06
Good one...  Laff | 10/03/06
Advertising exploits apparantly has it's effects...  BitTwiddler | 10/03/06
Silly local privilege escalation  RealNonZealot | 10/03/06
Sigh. I guess Mac coddles users too much  wolf_z | 10/04/06
Microsoft prays for "exploits" this benign!  Userama | 10/03/06
Never mind the facts - I'm a Mac user  TonyMcS | 10/03/06
Ah but the real quesion is can one be MORE secure?  Laff | 10/03/06
who cares...  doctorSpoc | 10/03/06
Hilarious!!  NonZealot | 10/03/06
Sounds like a...  Rick_K | 10/04/06
Security is only relative  ken_ballard@... | 10/04/06
Only to a certain degree  NonZealot | 10/03/06
Nope choice is fine by me...  Laff | 10/04/06
Try building a custom Mac from scratch  ken_ballard@... | 10/04/06
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Problem at Zdnet is  Boot_Agnostic | 10/04/06
And with 10 seconds of "s/w Update" time from the Finder menu  Dr_T | 10/03/06
Local root exploit? I'm sure there's a number of them.  Resuna | 10/04/06

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