dcrombie - 3:41 pm on Feb 4, 2005 (gmt 0)

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This argument of "market share ==> virii/exploits/hackers" is a load of FUD. Just look at the web server market where Apache has 60%+ market share yet all the virus attacks are against IIS with 20-30% of the market.

The reasons that M$ software gets hacked are:

1) it's several orders of magnitude easier;
2) exploiting any application on Windows gives you a good chance of taking over the entire OS;
3) the majority of Windows users are ignorant on security and don't apply patches; and lastly
4) market share - better ROI.

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