Re: Question about Mac OS X 10.4 Security

[mz4ph0d () gmail com]

At 8:21 PM +0000 1/3/06, Dave Korn wrote:
> make Mac users less vulnerable to social engineering than windows users, and
> as long as the attitude persists that Macs are somehow special and secure,
> then uneducated Mac users will be even /more/ likely to open an executable
> attachment, because they won't believe it can harm them, because they've
> been told over and over how their Mac is "secure" and all those viruses are
> only a problem on windows.


Sorry to spoil everyone's fun.
<http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=303382>

Maybe, just maybe, Apple are actually better (able/positioned) to
respond quickly to vulnerabilities before the exploits in-the-wild
affect more than 50 people? Who knows.


Z.
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