OK, un gusano en Mac OS
Siguiendo el mismo tema de la entrada OK un gusano en Linux, ahora aparece un supuesto gusano para las Mac. Lo que encuentro interesante es lo parecido de algunos giros en la discusión en Slashdot con la discusión que se desarrolló aquí en esa entrada pasada.
Estos son pedazos aislados de la discusión que no siguen el orden en el que aparecen en Slahsdot:
An OS’s security is directly related to its popularity. The less popular, the more secure and conversely, the more popular, the less secure. Hackers aren’t gonna waste time on an unpopular OS. Whens the last time you heard of a security threat for BEOS? It’s not because its secure… its because nobody uses it.
Windows has had what, like 200,000 Virus’s in the last year? Apple has had two or three theoretical exploits that either require the user to run code by hand or else target services that most mac users don’t turn on. Sounds like Apple is doing its job to me. And honestly this idea that as Apple gets more popular there will be more viruses is largely a load of crap. The notoriety of writing the first real virus for OS X would be vastly more than for writing yet another windows virus.
…but I digress. Regular updates, safe web browsing, and not clicking email links should be the norm anyway regardless of operating system. Of course “safe web browsing” means different things to different people.
A Symantec engineer predicts a ‘gradual erosion’ of the idea that Macs are a safer operating system than Windows.
Well, yeah… Symantec has kind of a vested interest in gradually eroding that idea, don’t they?
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