Showing posts with label MacOS. Show all posts
Showing posts with label MacOS. Show all posts

Saturday, March 18, 2006

Microsoft and Viruses

Why does everybody focus on Windows when they write viruses? I have a couple theories.
  • Writing a virus for open source is too easy - there's no challenge in finding vulnerabilities. Instead of writing viruses, people use Linux's vulnerabilities to do direct assults on other machines.
  • If a person writes a good virus for Windows, it can cripple entire enterprises, businesses and government agencies. Writing a virus for OS X might affect 10 people. Of course it also has the potential of collapsing elementary education, but that's about it.