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by lawnchair_larry
4130 days ago
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This is a commonly held misconception among OS X fans, but it's in no way true. It hasn't been since Windows 98. The claim doesn't even make sense - if your user, privileged or not, can read or write files, that means malware can modify the filesystem. The OS has no mechanism for making this easy to detect relative to any other OS. CryptoLocker would run with absolutely no problems on OS X if someone ported it. Remember, you don't need administrative privileges to destroy everything belonging to the user, which is most things you care about. And even if you do, elevating is trivial on both Windows and OS X. Java and Flash behave no differently on OS X than Windows. They are no more or less of a hole in either OS. In fact, there are more protections against Java and Flash bugs on Windows. There just also happens to be more attacker investment in those platforms as well. |
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