By Andy McCue
Published: Friday 23 March 2007
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Name
Michael Fischer
Location
Canterbury
Occupation
Anthropologist
Comment
While not wanting to minimize the issues with Linux and Mac OS X, I really have to wonder about Symantec's system of classification. Surely the 'severity' of a security flaw must somehow be related to the empirical consequences of the flaw.
In the same article we hear that the number of 'zombie' PCs has risen by 30% over the past year, while the percentage of zombie Macs and Linux machines has risen from near zero to near zero.
Why bother with articles based on distorted company info just trying to raise alarm by using distorted measures to increase their sales. The charity could be put to better use.
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