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Originally Posted by freebird
As with MAC,these vulnies are caused bcoz of its closed source and propreitory approach.
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LOL! This is one of the more ridiculous statements I have seen on this forum. Just because you Linux fans want Apple to open the source of Mac OS X because you guys want everything to be free, does not mean that OS X is insecure because of the closed source. If anything, it is more secure because the source is not entirely open.
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Originally Posted by kumarmohit
Jobs is a human being afterall.
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Please do not credit/discredit Steve Jobs for whatever happens at Apple. He was not the guy who coded Mac OS X. He is not the primary reason it is so secure.
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Originally Posted by nepcker
Don't use an 'admin enabled' account
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I hate to disagree but this is advice that is derived from paranoia. Mac OS X is highly secure and it does not require you to have lesser privileges to be safe. That is what differentiates it from Windows.
I use an administrator account and surf the web completely without fear. Yes, I have a pop-up blocker and firewall turned on but that's it. I have never had any problem related to viruses or spyware.
The attack demonstrated by the winner is a real threat but keep in mind that Mac OS X is not any less secure just because someone found a hole in Safari. There must be several other holes in Mac OS X but the fact is that there is not even a single virus for it out there in the wild even today. It is highly secure.
A hole was discovered, everyone is surprised. It will be patched. Software will always be vulnerable to attacks. But at the end of the day, I know that I cannot use Windows without anti-virus and anti-spyware programs (heck, I couldn't subject myself to it for long hours even if it was as secure as Mac OS X) while I can, and do, use Mac OS X in its default state.