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How about: (osx market share) * (percentage of clueless osx users) is much, much smaller than (windows market share) * (percentage of clueless windows users)
by pmjordan 18y ago
How about:
(osx market share) * (percentage of clueless osx users)
is much, much smaller than
(windows market share) * (percentage of clueless windows users)
Each of those factors individually might not make OSX sufficiently uninteresting, but in combination it's probably just not worth it.
Once that ratio drops below ~1:10 we might start seeing more OSX malware.
I don't know enough about OSX internals to judge on its technical security precautions, but beyond a certain point, the user becomes the weakest link. I think that even Windows has crossed that stage by now. Remote exploits are becoming rare, and even browser exploits increasingly require some user interaction.
- allenbrunson 18y agothat's certainly part of it. i had a friend once who was describing symptoms that sounded a lot like her windows computer had been compromised and was busy sending spam to other windows users. i told her various things she could do about it, all which she described as "too much trouble." she lives too far away for me to fix it myself.
- ashleyw 18y agoI did some tests on XP a few years ago, to see how bad it was. I ran no anti-virus, no firewall, no anti-spyware, nothing. Used the system carefully for over 4 months with no problems. Web browsing, web development and bittorrent. Normal stuff. So I can safely say, while windows has its downfalls, I think 90% of the time the problem is down to the end user. (though obviously its a nice extra layer of protection)