Mac OS X gets a Kick in the Face. Fanboys. Prepare for Battle.

[Piggy-Bank]

In a heated debate of which operating system is better, a lot of Mac lovers will will resort to the old "Macs are more secure."

George Ou of ZDNet decided to see just how Macs compared with Windows in the number of vulnerabilities. Results are quite surprising. Here is a graph to give you a general idea of what happened.



As you can see, there are 234 'Highly Critical' vulnerabilities in Mac OS X, compared to the 23 in Windows XP combined with Windows Vista.

The year 2007 has been an interesting year that brought us improved security with Windows Vista and Mac OS X Leopard (10.5). But to get some perspective of how many publicly known holes found in these two operating systems, I’ve compiled all the security flaws in Mac OS X and Windows XP and Vista and placed them side by side. This is significant because it shows a trend that can give us a good estimate for how many flaws we can expect to find in the coming months. The more monthly flaws there are in the historical trend, the more likely it is that someone will find a hole to exploit in the future. For example back in April of this year, hackers took over a fully patched Macbook and won $10,000 plus the Macbook they hacked.


I used vulnerability statistics from an impartial third party vendor Secunia and I broke them down by Windows XP flaws, Vista flaws, and Mac OS X flaws. Since Secunia doesn’t offer individual numbers for Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.4, I merged the XP and Vista vulnerabilities so that we can compare Vista + XP flaws to Mac OS X. In case you’re wondering how 19 plus 12 could equal 23, this is because there are many overlapping flaws that is shared between XP and Vista so those don’t get counted twice just as I don’t count something that affects Mac OS X 10.4 and 10.5 twice.



H Highly critical
M Moderately critical
L Less critical

So this shows that Apple had more than 5 times the number of flaws per month than Windows XP and Vista in 2007, and most of these flaws are serious. Clearly this goes against conventional wisdom because the numbers show just the opposite and it isn’t even close.


Also noteworthy is that while Windows Vista shows fewer flaws than Windows XP and has more mitigating factors against exploitation, the addition of Windows Defender and Sidebar added 4 highly critical flaws to Vista that weren’t present in Windows XP. Sidebar accounted for three of those additional vulnerabilities and it’s something I am glad I don’t use. The lone Defender critical vulnerability that was supposed to defend Windows Vista was ironically the first critical vulnerability for Windows Vista.

I'm sure this will get all the Mac fanboys riled up. Wish we could get a comparison between Linux (Gutsy Gibbon), Vista and Leopard...

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[SprKid]

Ohh lala >

[hotbotishot]

im sorry but MACs are nothing but pieces of shit unless your making a movie or something like that. but even then they're hardly worth the 3x of a PC which you could actually DO stuff on

[Deimos]

at the end of the day... who ****ing cares

[AlexanderVB]

im sorry but MACs are nothing but pieces of shit unless your making a movie or something like that. but even then they're hardly worth the 3x of a PC which you could actually DO stuff on

You obviously have built your opinions up way to much, for Mac's are a lot better then that and I am even a PC user. Macs you can do a lot more on at a faster rate. Cry less.



Furthermore, let me quote Marc Twain on this:

"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics."

Take a class on statistics and then try to shove lying statistics in our faces again. In other words, this post is fail and people need to stop forming uninformed opinions at 14.


Thanks and Love,
Clevinger


PS Happy Holidays.

[SprKid]

im sorry but MACs are nothing but pieces of shit unless your making a movie or something like that. but even then they're hardly worth the 3x of a PC which you could actually DO stuff on

I hate Mac's unless im using Imovie or Garage Band. Although FLSTUDIO for PC is pretty good, its not AS good. Or that just might be me because i suck with FLSTUDIO, but still.

[AlexanderVB]

I hate Mac's unless im using Imovie or Garage Band. Although FLSTUDIO for PC is pretty good, its not AS good. Or that just might be me because i suck with FLSTUDIO, but still.

Side Note
Hate is a strong word. You can hate Hitler, but are you hating a computer company as much as you hate Hitler?

Something to think about when choosing your words people.



On Topic


Some people just work better with Macs, while others with PCs. Don't ridicule those who use Macs just because you don't like them.

[SprKid]

You obviously have built your opinions up way to much, for Mac's are a lot better then that and I am even a PC user. Macs you can do a lot more on at a faster rate. Cry less.



Furthermore, let me quote Marc Twain on this:




Take a class on statistics and then try to shove lying statistics in our faces again. In other words, this post is fail and people need to stop forming uninformed opinions at 14.


Thanks and Love,
Clevinger


PS Happy Holidays.

You just contradicted yourself with that

[AlexanderVB]

You just contradicted yourself with that

Where? What?


All statistics are lies, even the ones I use.

[SprKid]

Hate is a strong word. You can hate Hitler, but are you hating a computer company as much as you hate Hitler?

Something to think about when choosing your words people.

Yes, it is; but i cannot express my feeling towards a mac in any other way.

Okay, you know what.

"i want to smash a sledge hammer on top of the wretched abomination"

[AlexanderVB]

Yes, it is; but i cannot express my feeling towards a mac in any other way.

Okay, you know what.

"i want to smash a sledge hammer on top of the wretched abomination"

Fair enough, that's your opinion.



Nonetheless, in my opinion Mac's have their ups and downs. Just like PCs. Play Devils advocate, and I mean, really do it, don't just claim you did and cry to me about "Oh em gee the computers suckz0rs."


In all honesty though I ended up buying a PC, for a gamer, it's required.

[hksmrchan]

fake. this is copy pasta, i refuse to believe

EDIT EDIT EDIT: nvm, this is ture, MAC ****ing got owned

[Rendascus]

im sorry but MACs are nothing but pieces of shit unless your making a movie or something like that. but even then they're hardly worth the 3x of a PC which you could actually DO stuff on

YEAH!!!!

Let's all just buy another hard drive, install a crack for mac, and make some movies with keynote!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Pro.>_>