Originally Posted By: Tasorin
Originally Posted By: Salohcin Dragon
The odd thing is XBOX live, is fine & a known company with security hole ridden software made Xbox.


Mostly...

When 9 out of 10 scripts are written primarily to attack window based machines because most businesses use windows, and up until recently most home pc's ran windows.

With the MacOs gaining in popularity and more and more scripts being written for browsers instead of OS's, that belief doesn't hold true any more.

It's not that Microsoft is that much worse at security then everyone else, its that 9 out of 10 attacks used to be aimed squarely at MS products.

Has MS faltered in timely security updates, of course. But that doesn't mean what you believe to be true Salochin is actually the reality. Which is becoming more and more common as people stop thinking in an analytical manner before they accept something at truth.

Now the majority of attacks are aimed to Adobe products : Flash player and PDF reader. Which work on windows, Mac and *nix boxes.

But one big thing which hit the microsoft system before was that users always run their OS as admin on XP. You even have tutorials on how to disable the UAC. I mean, take a NetBSD box, start using it as root all day long and it will eventually do some bad shit.

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