12-25-2004, 03:09 PM
MichaelJComputer Wrote:because nobody that knows anything about computers uses macs... it isn't that the mac os is less vulnerable, just that there is nobody who cares to exploit it.
Hard to say. There are some fundamental design decisions with Windows that cause it to be more vulnerable. The same is true in reverse with Linux/Unix, they are more secure because of how the OS is written inthe first place. Whether the same can be said of Mac OS X is debateable. Either way you're certainly right that there are a lot more crackers gunning for Windows than any other OS. OS X could be just as insecure but we wouldn't know.