On Sun, 20 Apr 2014 15:01:38 +0200, Cursitor Doom
wrote:

On Sat, 19 Apr 2014 19:38:59 +0100, The Natural Philosopher
wrote:


What? its common knowledge that OSX and IOS are Unix with a pretty
face., Why reinvent the wheel?

OH, well that's ****ed it for me, then. I was going to switch to BSD
on the basis that because (so I thought) so few people used it no
malware writers would be interested in it. Is there no escape?

There's no such thing as a "Totally Proofed Against Malware" OS (but
*nix based distros come a very close second to this ideal).

It's not just the "Security by Obscurity" effect at work here but
it's the main factor in deflecting interest by the Russian Mafia
backed malware efforts whilst Microsoft keep providing them with
monocloned targets counted in the billions, 99.9% of which are in the
hands of the computer illiterati.

Even if *nix based OSes manage to achieve a 'market penetration' that
reaches a double digit percentage share where it might look like a
worthwhile challenge for the scamware developers to spend time on, the
more secure by design (even that compromised by distros such as Ubuntu
and its derivatives) nature will provide a dampening of such interest
to all but the cleverest of lone hackers out to prove a point on their
own terms rather than to a criminal gang leader's agenda.

If you're prepared to put the effort into learning even just the
basic concepts of computers and their OS features, the payback is well
worth the effort (even more so for users brave enough to put their
trust in MS windows!). Theres on gain without pain. :-)
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Regards, J B Good