[72489] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Spyware becomes increasingly malicious
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Niels Bakker)
Wed Jul 14 15:31:53 2004
Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2004 21:31:10 +0200
From: Niels Bakker <niels=nanog@bakker.net>
To: nanog@merit.edu
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>> Sorry, it was a _technical_ question - is MAC OS known as having pests
>> and ad-ware in the comparable numbers (if any)?
* stepnwlf@magma.ca (John Underhill) [Wed 14 Jul 2004, 19:45 CEST]:
> This is spurious logic. You are suggesting that Mac is a more secure
> operating system, and I would suggest that it is probably far less
> secure, because it has not had to withstand years of unearthing
> vulnerabilities in the code.
It has. Darwin is based on years of development in BSD code.
-- Niels.
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