"What a bunch of winers. No operating system is 100% secure and non will be made I agree that the security model on MacOS X is far secure compared to Windows even Poul Turrot on winsupersite agrees on that. This is not what this is about and people who understands security will tell you that."

OS X's security model is actually fairly *INSECURE*. Its user seperation is even worse than that of Windows, because OS X has repeated the Windows mistake of having graphical applications running as a superuser on the same desktop as unprivileged, untrusted code.

"Security is not only vira and trojans but also Understanding how to use your firewall. Not working on your admin account then on the internet and using secure password that can´t be broken easily with programs like mac the ripper. This might be obvious for you but not for people like my dad."

The virus total for OS X is only low because of the product's obscurity. What's really funny is to hear OS X zealots say "ZERO VIRUSES", blah blah blah. The problem with OS X is that its users believe their OS to be secure simply because it isn't vulnerable to the same threats that Windows is.

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