[X4U] Re: Good Reading [NOISE]

[Stroller]

On Jul 19, 2005, at 11:24 am, T.L. Miller wrote:

> On 7/19/05, at 9:53 AM, Brett Conlon, <brett_conlon at sonymusic.com.au> 
> said:
>
>>
>> .....Virus authors in particular
>> are used to experimenting with undocumented features in order to
>> discover backdoors - I would imagine that the Mac could be quite a
>> playground for them.
>
> Probably wiser for them to wait until the switch to Mactel is complete.

Why would that make a difference? I'll bet very few viruses use 
architecture-dependent flaws - most use the application-specific holes, 
o/s-supplied APIs &/or documented security issues for which patches are 
available.

Stroller.