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Apple's Big Virus
Kelly Martin, 2005-04-20

After your identity has been stolen, your bank accounts compromised, 53 critical patches and 27 reboots later, when will you decide that you've had enough?

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re: security updates

"The price of freedom is eternal vigilance"

OS X is malware free not because of happy accident. It uses the most secure version (BSD) of the most secure available operating system (UNIX), and the open source community and Apple work hard to keep it that way. Their success is obvious.

Further, it is based on a modern processor.

Microsoft/Intel:

Paul Murphy, writing in CIO Today discussing the popular "buffer overflow": "... the exploit depends on the rigid stack-order execution and limited page protection inherent in the x86 architecture."

Opener:

Others have responded on this one.



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