RE: "Cisco's latest Global Threat Report found almost 300,000 unique instances of malware
August 3, 2011 at 2:10 pm
(August 3, 2011 at 1:37 pm)edk141 Wrote: 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.
Yes, you most assuredly can rest some of the blame on MS. They made a conscious decision to make the OS "easy" & "backwards compatible" instead of "secure". This isn't me just making things up about MS, this is a known fact in the computer security industry. You saying it's *only* the black hat's fault when MS enabled 95% of the entire malware ecosystem is laughable.
(August 3, 2011 at 1:37 pm)edk141 Wrote: Also - it's not like saying that at all. I don't have any trouble with malware on my Windows computers...
I don't have any malware issues with my 6 Windows PCs either. Notice however that the plural of anecdote isn't data.
"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
