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mridul:
I've been using windows for past three yrs and there have been at least 50 occasions when the OS has crashed (not because of me) and half out of that because of viruses. Past six months i've been using linux/mozilla to browse internet. there hasn't been a single virus on my PC. Some of my friends say that even Mac doesn't get infected of viruses. as Linux code is shared by many people it should be easy to find loopholes in that. But it is not so, windows gets all the viruses and others go clean. even big viruses attack big places running Windows based servers. Is this problem becoz so many people hate windows or windows offers this luxary to the people who manufacture viruses.

[ March 26, 2003: Message edited by: arya ]

Calum:
both.

your assertion that it should be easy to find holes in Free software is totally untrue by the way. if the source code is open to modification, and hundreds of people round the world are checking each others work, because they enjoy doing it, and they all have the opportunity to fix  any problems that they see, then any holes in the code will be plugged very quickly, as opposed to having a few dozen guys (at most) who are paid to look for these holes nine to five, as well as doing a lot of other stuff, plus when a hole does get found out (usually by somebody breaking in through it) you have to wait for the company to get round to releasing a fix, which they might charge money for, then you can easily see which model will produce more secure software faster.

also, how do you think antivirus companies will make money if everybody starts using secure operating environments?

mushrooomprince:
Working on a secure environment is also a lot less expensive. In the computer world .... windows would have the self defense capabilities of a Lamb.


Where as something like .... Mac os 10.2 would be more along the lines of a

MECH WARRIOR 5000 !!

you get the idea


But the point is  that its worth paying $300 extra for a machine that almost cant get viruses over something that is famous for getting attacked.

See what i meen ?


PC's have all kinds of hidden costs.

X123:
Only about 50 times in 3 years when it has crashed?

M51DPS:
What viruses still exist on Macs? I know that there used to be a bunch that infected HyperCard stacks and about the AutoStart worm, but what about today?

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