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<blockquote data-quote="Brown Study" data-source="post: 601846" data-attributes="member: 3889"><p>They're still doing it with OS X in Macs, too. Where's the blood on the streets?</p><p></p><p>You've attempted to switch the topic from viruses to attacks.</p><p></p><p>Soldiering on, anyway: Attacks on OS X are made by the thousands, likely millions, every day. All I need do is open the Firewall log to see them pile up like flies. But they get nowhere, and Apple keeps on top of any potential new holes by patching them, usually before the black hats are aware of them. The "news" media never mentions these, though there are multi-millions of Macs <em>running the same system</em> as iPhones. But iPhones are new, so they get the ink. Besides, the iPhone "attacks" are hacks, so your entire argument, such as it is, is dissolving like a teaspoon of sugar in the Pacific Ocean.Yep. Bots target enterprise Doze machines because they're so much more important.</p><p></p><p>Using the well-known Scale of Importance, it has been found that enterprise computers outrank home computers 3,500 to 1 in the pecking order. That's because companies from multi-billion-dollar, world-wide conglomerates to mom-and-pop corner stores are too stupid to run firewalls and anti-virus apps, unlike the situation with home machines, protected up their yin-yangs against viruses, but, thereby, making them far less important. No self-respecting enterprise machine would have an IT department guarding it. The machine is just too <em>important</em> for that drivel.You're asking the wrong crowd. Millions of Dozers have pet zombies in their homes and don't know it. So it's a huge point. But millions of Mac users <em>don't</em> have zombies in their homes — and they <em>know</em> it.You revealed yourself as an amateur in your first sentence. You shouldn't come out from under your bridge until the end.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Brown Study, post: 601846, member: 3889"] They're still doing it with OS X in Macs, too. Where's the blood on the streets? You've attempted to switch the topic from viruses to attacks. Soldiering on, anyway: Attacks on OS X are made by the thousands, likely millions, every day. All I need do is open the Firewall log to see them pile up like flies. But they get nowhere, and Apple keeps on top of any potential new holes by patching them, usually before the black hats are aware of them. The "news" media never mentions these, though there are multi-millions of Macs [I]running the same system[/I] as iPhones. But iPhones are new, so they get the ink. Besides, the iPhone "attacks" are hacks, so your entire argument, such as it is, is dissolving like a teaspoon of sugar in the Pacific Ocean.Yep. Bots target enterprise Doze machines because they're so much more important. Using the well-known Scale of Importance, it has been found that enterprise computers outrank home computers 3,500 to 1 in the pecking order. That's because companies from multi-billion-dollar, world-wide conglomerates to mom-and-pop corner stores are too stupid to run firewalls and anti-virus apps, unlike the situation with home machines, protected up their yin-yangs against viruses, but, thereby, making them far less important. No self-respecting enterprise machine would have an IT department guarding it. The machine is just too [I]important[/I] for that drivel.You're asking the wrong crowd. Millions of Dozers have pet zombies in their homes and don't know it. So it's a huge point. But millions of Mac users [I]don't[/I] have zombies in their homes — and they [I]know[/I] it.You revealed yourself as an amateur in your first sentence. You shouldn't come out from under your bridge until the end. [/QUOTE]
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