RE: "Cisco's latest Global Threat Report found almost 300,000 unique instances of malware
August 3, 2011 at 1:07 pm
(This post was last modified: August 3, 2011 at 1:18 pm by Jaysyn.)
(August 3, 2011 at 12:18 pm)edk141 Wrote:(August 3, 2011 at 12:04 pm)Jaysyn Wrote: You all can thank a combination of Microsoft & people that just don't care about things until they directly affect them for this mess.
Microsoft is responsible for the spread of malware how? I would blame, for example, the people writing it and the other people paying for its services.
That's almost like saying "Pintos are perfectly safe, it's not Ford's fault people keep rear-ending them!"
Microsoft has a large share of the blame due to the company ignoring computer security practices that had been in place for years prior to the design of Windows or Internet Explorer. Their software engineering laxity has enabled malware to flourish & they are just now starting to really care because it is finally hitting the bottom line in their Windows division.
You don't see this level of malware from OSX, BSD or Linux, because they a.) have a smaller market share (about 11% together) b.) architecturally, they are not easy targets.
"How is it that a lame man does not annoy us while a lame mind does? Because a lame man recognizes that we are walking straight, while a lame mind says that it is we who are limping." - Pascal