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It's a fallacy that OSX has less viruses due to market share. The reason there's virtually no viruses is because there's separation of privilege on OSX. You
by poutine 17y ago
It's a fallacy that OSX has less viruses due to market share. The reason there's virtually no viruses is because there's separation of privilege on OSX. You don't run as administrator the way you do commonly under Windows.
- amichail 17y agoBut this problem was fixed in Vista.
- darkxanthos 17y agoYeah, I love Vista thinking I'M the virus. grr.
- there 17y agobut when you are the only user on a given system, whether or not you are running as administrator doesn't really matter. a virus/worm running as your user still has access to all of the important data on the system because it belongs to you. and by the way, i would wager 95% of mac users would blindly type in their password into an authentication dialog raised by a worm asking for root privileges, simply because the authentication dialog looks the same in every application and most users don't understand what is asking for privileges.