Fujitsu To Develop Vigilante Computer Virus For Japan

Every time I see this, I remember the obvious counterargument.

- If OSX had better than 8% market share, wouldn't there be hordes of virus programmers (russian mafia, bored script kiddies and pranksters, whatever) looking for holes in it to take over?
- If Linux had better than 1% market share, wouldn't there be hordes of programmers trying to break it? Actually, if you look at the server market where Linux has a larger market share, they DO try to crack it - and lo and behold, they tend to succeed relatively on the same pace as breaking into Windows server boxes.

The question isn't, is Windows insecure? Of course it is - due in no small part to being not-securely-configured by hordes of user-level operators at their houses. But if everyone magically switched to your OS of choice, are we really likely to find that the situation improved at all? Probably not. Even at their smaller market share, it turns out OSX has had its fair share [google.com], and Linux as well.

And then, of course, there's the old "Problem between keyboard and chair" issue. Users willing to click on ANYTHING are going to be your worst source of problems, especially in the home market. Again, would that change if all of them switched to OSX or Linux? Of course not, they're still going to click on anything and enter their password to install the Free Puppy Screensaver or whatever else it is.

Source: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotYourRightsOnline/to/~3/bakzIAKvI-k/fujitsu-to-develop-vigilante-computer-virus-for-japan

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