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Oxford, there are so many holes in OS X that will let an attacker take over the machine it's insane. Lots of web content can just deposit viruses on OS X. It's just that OS X is so obscure nobody tries to attack it save a few just to prove a point. There is no point in attacking OS X when you're going to find a Windows system 95% of the time.

Apple hasn't fixed the "entire problem" on OS X. Just look at the time between the last two critical security patches Apple issued for OS X. The time between them is the time OS X had big security holes that were unprotected. Look I'll explain it to you like you're a clueless dummy.

Apple issued a security patch on August 2nd, 2006 this is what it fixed.

Now in that list are security holes that would allow someone to take control of the OS X system and run any program they wanted without permission.

Now the previous patch was released June 29th, 2006. So that's over a month that OS X sat there with gaping holes in it and Apple said nothing as they were getting ready to put out a patch. That's a whole month OS X was wide open to attack if the user had all updates and refused to protect their system via other means. Now I know this will take a while to sink in. However I have hope that if someone as clueless and ignorant as Oxford can figure it out, then a regular person will know to protect their OS X system.

John

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