I'm running on MacOS X on my Mac, so I guess there goes another exploit that doesn't affect me .

xboxrulz

haha nice....yep I guess you do have another exploit that doesn't affect you....lucky you, although with the increase in the number of people using apple computers, I am sure it is only a matter of time...

You do remember UNIX is statistically safer than Windows NT no matter how you look at it. It was designed with stability and security in mind over "ease-of-use". Does this mean that it's invulnerable, no, however, chances are a lot lower than Windows NT and installed userbase doesn't really count. Look at Linux, there's more Linux users than Mac users; you don't see too much critical exploits on Linux than Windows or any other operating systems.

xboxrulz

That is true, however I think microsoft started to take more of an approach similar to that of what you see in linux with the user account control (granted that it comes up constantly and so many users I am sure will just ignore it and click on the allow), it does provide an added ability to know what is going on with your computer...so in that sense microsoft has started to put security in front of usability (and they got tons of criticism for it), however I don't know that it is entirely foolproof.

As for linux, it seems to me that I remember seeing somewhere that there have been a number of critical problems with linux in some of the recent months....although I don't have a source for this (so i'll have to dig around a little for it).

But yes, I do all in all believe that apple seems to do a better job with their products than microsoft (although recently it seems as if apple is doing better with the hardware side of things providing really good hardware). In fact I may just get an apple for my next laptop computer, because I love my iPod, and from what I have used for apple computers in recent years seem to be really good.

I am still going to stand on the side though, that as more and more people start using mac's the likelyhood of there being exploits is going to go up (and that doesn't necessarily mean that the exploits lie in the operating system itself), it could easily be in a poorly coded application, as is the case with many exploits.

This is really off topic (even more so than above so if you would like to split this into another topic that is ok), but do you like your macbook a lot? (would you recommend it to others?)

A possibility, and yes Microsoft tends to copy UNIX right now as it's basically MacOS X on the visuals anyways. However, the UAC is quite annoying and causes compatibility issues with legacy applications. People say that Windows Vista (SP0) is really a bigger beta test while Windows Vista (SP1) is the true release of Windows Vista since there's a lot of performance improvements and security patches.

Linux has it's fair share, however, it's still fixed faster than on Windows or MacOS X.

As for the Macbook, I answered it here: http://www.astahost.com/index.php?showtopic=17079.

xboxrulz

I hope this so-called "pdf exploit" is not serious. I am using pdf as a way of generating report in my website project. I am also a frequent user of pdf file.

i don't really like PDFs >_< i hatrwhen i click on an tutorial it sometimes come open with PDF >_< i hate it alot it lags up alot

There are a couple of things you might be able to do about slow performance when opening / browsing PDF files.
1. If you want lightning fast performance when opening PDFs, use the Sumatra PDF Viewer (http://blog.kowalczyk.info/software/sumatrapdf/).
2. If you want good browsing performance after the PDF has been opened, then use FoxIT Reader (http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/rd_intro.php).
Adobe Acrobat Reader is like a stocky frat guy you never want to invite to your Halloween parties, because he'll show up wearing a giant gift-wrapped box with a "To: Women, From: God" label on top. He thinks he is all that, but he really just wore a costume so big he can't get through the front door and has to stay outside by the fire all night.
Acrobat Reader does one thing poorly - read PDFs. To do this it needs to download updates at least twice a month. Acrobat's other big feature is the ability to bring your system to a roaring halt while it boots up its massive amount of plugins and libraries. All this to display just one page.

This post has been edited by dserban: Feb 16 2008, 12:45 PM

I knew about Foxit reader, it really is great and much faster than Adobe Reader, but I tried SumatraPDF and it is even faster than you use the actual size of the PDF, even though it has almost all features off, for reading it is just great, thanks for sharing

By the way, I recommend to turn off the plugin in browsers, when you click on a pdf file with your mouse in a link and pdf opens in your browser tab, I really hate that, I prefer that it would open in a normal window of Adobe or any other PDF viewer, it's much faster and doesn't lag the browser and besides it can be easily changed in most browsers preferences.

I don't want to by any means start a windows bashing fest...but seriously, what *doesn't* put Windows XP at risk? It's getting to the point where my Secunia RSS feeds for XP are bigger in the morning than my 30 other feeds (including consumerist, engadget, slashdot and digg) COMBINED.

I'm with xboxrulz on this one...Mac user and effin LOVING IT.