March 27, 2005

The razor in effect

Unsanity.org goes Socratic:

...What's worse is that people always try to claim OS X has [no viruses] because it is such a small target. That claim doesn't work. We have a virus for mobile phones and a virus for a firewall that less than a hundred thousand people use (which I can't seem to find right now). These things are much, much smaller targets than OS X yet they have viruses written for them. Why is it so hard to believe that there are no viruses for OS X just because OS X is better engineered?...
For the record, his statistics are correct: as of today, there have been zero viruses and zero worms for Mac OS X. (There was that one Trojan horse, but it's neither a virus nor a worm since it's not self-replicating.)

Posted by Jeffrey at March 27, 2005 10:52 PM
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