selnor said:
rocketpig said:
selnor said:
Apple. I forgot they existed. lol. If Apple had the majority of the OS market over Windows, then all the viruses would be written for macs. After all why write a virus that will only affect 3% of the internet users out there? Apple take over the living room. LOL |
They have as good a chance as any to impact the living room area. They already have the largest infrastructure set up to deliver content.
As for viruses... LOL. There's more to it than 3% of the market. Being Unix-based has a HUGE impact on how virus-prone an operating system is. Combine that with the giant holes in XP, the registry, admin authentication, etc. and you have your reason why XP was so consistently attacked by viruses. MS originally put in no safeguards against them (a simple authentication screen, native to all *nix systems already, would have done wonders) to ease use of the system. Terrible idea.
Simply put, MS really screwed up. That's why there are so many viruses, adware, spyware, etc. out in the wild. Good programmers can always find exploits in a system but with XP, they didn't even have to try. Microsoft left the door wide open for them.
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Sorry. If Mac OS was market leader then there would be hundreds of thousands of viruses for it. It doesnt matter what is in place. The virus writers would do it easily. Be serious why write a virus that will affect maybe 6 million computers, when you can write one that will affect hundreds of millions. Seriously thats why they Mac systems are clean. Before XP came along Microsoft staff have had a far harder job knowing their systems are targeted by the virus writers. If Virus writers targeted Macs, you would see there faults to. In simple nothing can escape someone who wants to virus you. |
Like I said, all systems have exploits. The problem is that MS didn't even try to close any of them when they released XP. That was a mistake, which led to disastrous results from 2001-2005 or so. They also have several loopholes still open, their registry system being a main culprit, which is still a huge spyware/adware problem.
If you honestly believe that XP's early virus protection was on par with a *nix system, I don't know what to say other than you're living in denial.
