by Howard Brazee <howard@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
Jun 24, 2008 at 11:26 AM
On Tue, 24 Jun 2008 12:11:37 -0400, Robert Tomsick
<robert_nntp@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>I don't think Mac OS X is immune to malware (no OS is), but I do think
>that the combination of sane defaults, a well-designed security
>framework, and a new, clean code base have all contributed to the
>scarcity of malicious software on the platform.
Apples biggest advantage was in having enough control that it can say
"we are switching our core operating system". It doesn't need to
patch over patch over patch to turn an unsafe system into a safe one -
it can be designed that way.
