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To: HAL9000
Mac OS X worms, viruses and spyware: near zero.

Which will change, if Mac ever gets a respectable market share. Even among those who are not religiously motivated (as many anti-MS hackers appear to be), most hackers are smart enough to put their efforts toward the systems that are best able to propagate their work.

With over 90% of the user market, Windows is by far the most desirable target.

But again, we cannot neglect the religious aspects of this: there are those -- and I suspect there are/will be several on this very thread -- whose antipathy toward Microsoft is rather resembles militant Islam.... ;-)

189 posted on 01/18/2005 2:56:23 PM PST by r9etb
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To: r9etb
With over 90% of the user market, Windows is by far the most desirable target.

And yet, somehow according to Secunia, the number of exploits is comparable. Which basically debunks their so-called "quality".
191 posted on 01/18/2005 3:10:40 PM PST by Bush2000
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