[X4U] FW: What's the reason for your misleading CNN piece on Macvulnerabilities?

[Michael Elliott]

I agree...I know this has been hashed out here before, but the market  
share argument makes *some* sense, but ultimately fails.  I mean,  
even if the purpose of a virus/spyware/etc were to be criminal rather  
than for fame, wouldn't MILLIONS of connected OS X computers be such  
a tempting target that SOMEONE would have created a (successful)  
exploit in the last 5 years?

Michael

On Oct 23, 2006, at 9:13 PM, Robert Ameeti wrote:

> At 5:25 PM -0700, 10/23/06, Earle Jones wrote:
>
>> 1.  A good friend of mine is a high-powered senior consultant in  
>> the field of computer security.  ...
>
>> True, the old-fashioned hacker wants to make a big splash and  
>> might avoid the Mac for that reason.
>
> This statement holds no water. Who is going to make bigger news ...  
> the writer of the next big Windows virus OR the writer of the first  
> significant Mac OS X virus? My money is on the writer of the first  
> real OS X virus.
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