RE: "Cisco's latest Global Threat Report found almost 300,000 unique instances of malware
August 3, 2011 at 2:34 pm
(August 3, 2011 at 2:10 pm)Jaysyn Wrote:(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.
If you read your own post (a) is Microsoft having the majority of market share. You seriously can't blame them for having a popular OS (you can, but it would be stupid)
MS enabled 95% of the entire malware ecosystem? You saying malware wouldn't exist if Windows didn't is what's laughable. Malware writers adapted to Windows because it was there. The first malware wasn't for Windows, the last won't be, and the hundreds of people paid to write malware would write it for other platforms if Windows wasn't available.
