[LINK] Re: Windows XP versus Vista

[Darryl (Dassa) Lynch]

link-bounces at anumail0.anu.edu.au wrote:
|| On 26/1/08 6:33 PM, "David Goldstein" <wavey_one at yahoo.com> wrote:
|| 
||| You don't look too hard. Whatever its validity, a news search using
||| the terms apple and hacker finds the following story first:
||| Criminal hackers turn on Mac users
||| Security experts have warned that hackers are fast extending their
||| efforts beyond Windows and are actively targeting Mac users.
|| 
|| hmmm ... reading all the way to the bottom of that turns up
|| this nugget:
|| 
||| What¹s important to realise, however, is that this Trojan doesn¹t
||| exploit a vulnerability in OS X, Leopard, Tiger, or any Apple code.
||| This Trojan exploits the vulnerability within the person sitting in
||| front of the keyboard. It¹s the Mac user who has given permission
||| for the code to run and allowing their computer to be infected.

Most of the malware or trojans that infect any computer no matter what the
OS require this.  I've been running Windows and other other operating
systems for years without any problems but I do take steps to minimise any
risks and am very careful on what I allow.  If you take the right
precautions any OS can be safe enough to use.  You do a risk assessment and
take any steps necessary to minimise any potential threats.

What most users fail at is not recognising the risk in the first place
independent of the OS.  I consider it unrealistic to expect an OS to protect
users from all risks but the public seems to expect this. 

Not a sustainable situation in MHO.

Darryl (Dassa) Lynch