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Originally posted by Halm
And as far as “security through obscurity” goes Mac’s and Linux as starting to see these issues pop up too.
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While nothing is ever 100% the lack of threats for OS X are hardly due to security through obscurity.
Writing malicous code for OS X or any OS is actually simple. Infecting OS X is exceedingly difficult. Getting it to replicate and spread, (which is what defines it as a virus) is near impossible.
The difference isn't market share, it's the foundation of the operating systems. Given that most virus authors and hackers are in it for the ego, don't you think that there would be a huge incentive to be the first one to write a widespread OS X or Linux virus.
In the OS 9 and before days viruses were a real threat for Macs. People were writing and releasing them. Not on the magnitude of Windows but we got a few a year.
OS X has been around 8 years now and Macs enoy a larger marketshare than they did 9 years ago and not one documented virus in the wild.
So what happened to all the guys writing Mac viruses? Where did they go?
Apple ship 3-4 Million machines per year. 100 million computers is not a large enough target?
The obscurity argument is stupid.