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Apple tried to claim Apple PCs were special, but it didn't remove the single biggest hazard to any claim of security.

PC means personal computer, which means a system owned by millions of people without the technical skill to assess whether or not that attachment (whether it's birthday_card.dmg or birthday_card.exe) really came from grandma.

All PCs are vulnerable to users. I'm glad Apple figured it out a few years sooner than Microsoft did.



How do you figure that 'Apple figured it out a few years sooner than Microsoft did'?

I don't endorse Windows. But for all Windows' brokenness, Microsoft has not claimed invulnerability to viruses and has put a significant amount of effort into improving security from XP to today. The main reason it has had more trouble with malware is that it has been a much more popular platform, meaning that is where all the victims are.


Microsoft didn't make the same claims, but they showed the same lax attitude toward security for years. Apple only needed to see a few malware outbreaks to come to terms with reality.


>> I'm glad Apple figured it out a few years sooner than Microsoft did.

When exactly are you claiming that Apple "figured it out"? Because Microsoft's Trustworthy Computing Initiative kicked off in 2002 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trustworthy_computing#Microsoft...

From what I've seen inside of MS security trumps everything else. Want to change an API? You can't...unless it has a security issue in which case go right ahead.


Apple took the claim down less than a year after a big malware outbreak. 2002 is quite a few years after malware authors started targeting Windows.




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