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Originally Posted by Superflyer
Also on the topic of why MS is hacked and has way more viruses then any other OS out there, it is because hackers want to be known as the guy\girl that took down the giant.
It all started many years ago when MS started becoming the giant that it is and started wiping out other companies like they were nothing. Hackers started coming up with ways to attack them because they thought that no one company should rule the roost like MS was doing.
Now a days things are a little diffrent but kind of the same, now hackers want the fame that comes with taking MS out. Does anyone remember the blaster virus a few years ago, I know I will not forget it. The guy that wrote that went to jail for a few years but not before signing a large contract for work with a virus protection company. Now this is becoming the norm and now releasing a virus is more of a resume then an attack against "the man".
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As stated numerous times above, they are not the giant you think they are in many areas. The premise is faulty.
A lot of the vulerabilities are proof of concept and most don't exsist anywhere in the real world. Most if not all require multiple user actions or being logged in as root. I challenge any Mac users here to tell this board how to enable the root account and then log in. Most users don't know how and have no reason to. This is not something you can do in error. Even as an admin account, you will promted at least twice that it is an application and not pictures of Jessica Simpson.
This is how Windows Vista works. Why will it work this way? It is more secure.