To: Blue Highway
It is well known there are less attacks directed towards Macs because of the limited amount of marketshare of users.
Correction: It is an article of faith among those who dislike or hate Apple and its products for whatever reasons that OS X is attacked less because it is used less. OS X is attacked less than Windows because it is more protected than Windows.
Why siege the fortress when you can take out the unprotected villagers instead?
103 posted on
07/01/2009 5:57:41 PM PDT by
Terpfen
(Ain't over yet, folks. Those 2004 Senate gains are up for grabs in 2 years.)
To: Terpfen
Good point, but from a hackers point of view, why target a few million macs when you can target several hundred million- a billion PCs?
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