Hacker: Microsoft More Secure Than Apple, Adobe

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scottie said:

zarx said:

scottie said:

zarx said:

scottie said:

r505Matt said:

scottie said:

Kenoid said:

 

 

fair enough I guess but I would still prefer to be prepared myself it only takes one successful attack for you identity/money to be stolen, and a well protected (firewall antivirus etc) windows system is more secure than just running a Mac. I have read reports that malware writers are starting to attack more Mac OS and multi platform apps like Acrobat, Flash and web browsers as they are softer targets, it's good that Apple are starting to consider security more but if their userbase keeps growing and windows systems are kkep getting harder to exploit I think there will be an exponential increase in the amount of malware that targets apple systems and I think Apple could be more proactive in securing their systems they have hidden behind obscurity for to long.

I'm probably protected in a similar fashion to you, and I don't even have a credit card or anything worth stealing. I run W7 with all the latest patches, and I run AVG.

 

Only time will tell if the security improvements Apple is bringing about is enough to counter the effect of increasing attention from the hacking community. 

 

Well in terms of aiming at Acrobat - that wont trouble Mac users, because once you have used preview, you will never go back to Acrobat reader (pdfs open ludicrously faster, and hog less ram, much better browsing and search functions - nothing that is all that important for a 5 page PDF, but when you're opening PDFs with 1000 pages, it's incredible). Targeting web browsers also leaves mac users sitting pretty, no IE, lots of FF.

I wouldn't use AVG myself it used to be good but these days it just gives a lot of false positives and it's slow to scan I use Avast free instead I use other apps for spyware etc.

As for Acrobat yes it is probably the worst PDF reader around (ironic considering it's the official one and the oldest)I use Foxit myself, as for browsers Firefox has it's share of exploits.