RE: "Cisco's latest Global Threat Report found almost 300,000 unique instances of malware
August 3, 2011 at 1:37 pm
(This post was last modified: August 3, 2011 at 1:44 pm by edk.)
(August 3, 2011 at 1:07 pm)Jaysyn Wrote: 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.
Architecturally? Can't disagree there, although there it is far from impossible to attack a Unixy OS. (a) however I think you can hardly blame Microsoft for - it's not as if they would deliberately try to give market share to their competitors.
Also - it's not like saying that at all. I don't have any trouble with malware on my Windows computers, and the people I meet who do tend to be the ones who are just plain stupid. OSX and most Linuxes both have a centrally managed app repository, which means there's less downloading of stuff. I think it's more like someone saying "Bridges are perfectly safe, it's not our fault people keep jumping off them", and you arguing that it's the maker of the bridge's fault for not putting up a suicide net.
