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    Default "OSX is teh new windows 98"

    The Mac has officially gone mainstream.

    The proof? On Halloween, professional online criminals were found using Trojan-horse software to target, for the first time, computers running Apple's OS X operating system -- just as they have been doing for years on the more ubiquitous flavors of Windows.

    "Apple's day has finally come, and Apple users are going to get hit hard," security researcher Gadi Evron said. "OS X is the new Windows 98."
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    isnt this funny ... the dangers of being mainstream ... and all those holes in teh OS help too

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    Quote Originally Posted by [I.R.A]_FBi View Post
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    isnt this funny ... the dangers of being mainstream ... and all those holes in teh OS help too
    Nope. OS X is still way more secure than windows. 5 viruses since 2001 vs what? 43k?

    OS X>Windows.
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    Nope. OS X is still way more secure than windows. 5 viruses since 2001 vs what? 43k?

    OS X>Windows.
    that does not mean its more secure... virus creators just target computers running windows because its more popular......

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    Quote Originally Posted by marlonxp View Post
    that does not mean its more secure... virus creators just target computers running windows because its more popular......
    exactly, which is why i said ...

    isnt this funny ... the dangers of being mainstream ...

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    interesting times ahead for all those people that think that because they use a MAC they aren't vulnerable but we will see
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    Its not only that. The Unix/BSD security model is way better than windows' own. Also I don't think I'm invulnerable, I'm just saying that OS X is more secure.
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    More secure..... for now....muwahahahahahahahaha!


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    ah yes...how the mighty will soon fallen...
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    Cool Narrowminded Thinking

    Quote Originally Posted by .Illusionist View Post
    Its not only that. The Unix/BSD security model is way better than windows' own. Also I don't think I'm invulnerable, I'm just saying that OS X is more secure.
    - Actually, WINDOWS is more secure, because it's been torn apart more often than OSX. You can't say that one OS is more secure than another when it has no battle scars to prove it.

    Saying that OSX is more secure than Windows is like saying that an ordinary civilian is more likely to survive a war than a trained soldier. That kind of thinking is nothing short of propagandist crock. Don't believe the lies. If hackers were to truly pour their energies into OSX, they'd tear that junk apart like a 12 year old girl being gang raped by an entire campus.

    People fight against Bill Gates because they are lascivious (aka "bad-mind"), not because his products are necessarily bad. Think about that.

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    Default Whatt!!!!

    My question is this is it is not SOO secure why the hackers do tek a run at it, jus to prove a point. Mac's might be expensive, not only stylish, but a lot of thought went into not just the hardware but the software. UNLIKE A PIECE OF PC JUNK, with windows. not all adobe cs3 products can run with VISTA properly, not to mention MAYA, and SHAKE.
    Think again people!!

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