(Apple) Security Update fixes Finder, iChat, more

MacNN ^ | 02/15/2007

[TommyDale]

You don't have a television?

[zeugma]

 

Your original post repeated the same old canard that shows up on every Mac thread... 

But we've all been told that Apple has no need for fixes.

To  which I responded:

Please do us all a favor and find that post.

You responded lamely

You don't have a television?

My point was, that the only time to see a claim that Apple doesn't have a need for fixes is when som Microsoft loyalist makes a sarcastic remark like the one you made above.

All software has bugs, especially projects as huge as a modern operating system. The difference between those produced by Microsoft and Apple is the consequences of exploitation, and the fact that the security model behind unix systems is much more resistant to attacks against it being successful.

If you can demonstrate a virus, worm, or trojan out there in the wild that has managed to attack more than just a couple of Mac users at a time I think we'd all be interested in seeing it.

The lack of same is ample demonstration that the security model on Mac/Unix/Linux/BSD is a superior model to that used on the MS-Windows line, which apparently seems to have kept to its winning ways with Vista. Apparently Gates and co. don't see any reason not to run every single installer program that is run on the system as the Administrator user by default.  Apparently, a safe way of installing a program in user space is beyond the imagination of the boys in Redmond.