It only took one (Morris) to know down most of the Unix boxes on the internet.
It’s not a pointless argument at all, it’s the TRUTH. MS bashers like to talk as if no OS made by anybody other than MS has ever had a virus. Out in reality though ALL OSes have some vulnerability. You said “other operating systems don’t seem to have this problem” and that statement flies in the face of reality. All OSes have the problem, maybe not as bad as Windows but they still have it.
And now you’re changing to “resistant”, showing you know you’re original statement was silly.
And it used to be that you could take down any Windows (95) box with a simple ping packet that was too large. If we include the Morris Worm then we get to say, "Every single Windows system can be shut down with a single ping!" and it would make just as fair of a comparison.
But we aren't judging operating systems by how bad they used to be. We're judging them by how bad they are now.
And Windows 7 just showed that Microsoft still won't fix their OS. It's their newest product yet 7 out of 10 randomly selected malware packages still work on it.
It’s not a pointless argument at all, it’s the TRUTH. MS bashers like to talk as if no OS made by anybody other than MS has ever had a virus.
I challenge you to point out where I said that. Ever. In my 10 years on Free Republic.
You said “other operating systems don’t seem to have this problem” and that statement flies in the face of reality.
Not at all. Other operating systems don't have THOUSANDS OF ACTIVE VIRUSES. Get it yet?
Other operating systems have a few. Most have never been outside of a lab. Microsoft has thousands and thousands of currently active viruses infecting tens and maybe hundreds of millions of PCs. That is a fundamental difference.
And now you’re changing to “resistant”, showing you know you’re original statement was silly.
Not at all. If Windows was anywhere close to being as resistant to infection as AIX, Solaris, Linux or MacOS, we wouldn't be having this discussion.
But it isn't. And as the original story of this post shows, it doesn't seem to be getting any better.
Can't you come up with and example that is younger than 22 years???