XPost: comp.sys.mac.advocacy, comp.os.mac.advocacy, comp.sys.mac.system   
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   From: hitman86@pacbell.net   
      
   "Lefty Bigfoot"  wrote in message   
   news:0001HW.C0ADE80A02151597F0407530@news.verizon.net...   
   > Derek Currie wrote   
   > (in article   
   >  ge0.nyroc.rr.com>):   
   >   
   >   
   > [snip a lot of relatively pointless algebra]   
   >   
   >> Readers: feel absolutely free to quote my calculations in any posts you   
   >> make. It is publicly available data, and anyone trained in algebra can   
   >> make the calculation if they WANT to. Obviously winTrolls want to avoid   
   >> this statistic at all costs in pursuit of the agenda of lies, ignorance   
   >> and FUD.   
   >   
   > Except all of that work is of little value.   
   >   
   >> CONCLUSION: No matter what factors you consider, Windows has   
   >> dramatically more malware on a PER USER BASIS than Mac OS X.   
   >   
   > And the problem with all of that is that you make the assumption   
   > that malware is a factor due to a linear ratio as the number of   
   > users increases.  I haven't seen any evidence to suggest that   
   > 'per capita' numbers for something like this provides any useful   
   > information whatsoever.   
   >   
   > The real truth is that malware is essentially nonexistent, yet   
   > not impossible under OS X, regardless of the reasons.  Nothing   
   > could be further from the truth for Windows.   
   >   
   >> This means that Mac OS X is remarkably more secure, in this case   
   >> regarding malware, than Windows.   
   >   
   > That is true, regardless of the number of users.  A platform's   
   > security is either there or not there, even if only one person   
   > uses it.   
      
        I find a big clue in what malware actually does. A lot of it is to   
   distribute spam, ads and DOS attack software for distributed DOS attacks.   
   Now that right there says that the person sending the spam zombie software   
   would want to write it for a Mac. If they distribute it through spam, there   
   is a much greater chance the emails will wind up on a Windows box than an OS   
   X or Linux box.   
      
   John   
      
      
      
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