eldavojohn writes “A ZDNet weblog experiences stats from Secunia showing OSX averaged 20.25 vulnerabilities per month while XP & Vista blended averaged three.sixty seven/month. is this report card’s implication accurate, or is this a symptom of one firm turning a blind eye whereas the other concentrates on well timed bugfixes? ‘while home windows Vista displays fewer flaws than home windows XP and has more mitigating components towards exploitation, the addition of home windows Defender and Sidebar delivered 4 extremely important flaws to Vista that weren’t existing in home windows XP. Sidebar accounted for 3 of these further vulnerabilities and it can be something i’m glad i don’t use. The lone Defender important vulnerability that used to be purported to defend windows Vista used to be paradoxically the first important vulnerability for home windows Vista.'”
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