[Computer] "Liebe Windows-User: We love you!". Als 2000 der Virus "I love you" Windowsrechner ausser Gefecht setzte
entwarf die Agentur Springer & Yacobi schnell eine Anzeige.
Unter dem Apple Logo konnte man lesen "Liebe Windows-User: We love you!". In der letzten Zeit hört man fasst jede Woche von einem neuen Virus, der
in der Windows Welt für Unruhe sorgt. Den entspannt vor ihren Rechnern sitzenden Apple Usern wird dann erklärt, dass
ihre Rechner desshalb nie von Viren befallen werden, weil es nur so wenig von ihnen gibt. Angeblich lohne es sich nicht dafür einen Virus zu programmieren.
Das die lieben Windows User hier leider irren, belegt jetzt ein Artikel von David Poge in der NYTimes.

Windows comes with five of its ports open; Mac OS X comes with all of them shut and locked. (Ports are back-door channels to the Internet: one for instant-messaging, one for Windows XP’s remote-control feature and so on.) These ports are precisely what permitted viruses like Blaster to infiltrate millions of PC’s. Microsoft says that it won’t have an opportunity to close these ports until the next version of Windows, which is a couple of years away.

When a program tries to install itself in Mac OS X or Linux, a dialog box interrupts your work and asks you permission for that installation — in fact, requires your account password. Windows XP goes ahead and installs it, potentially without your awareness.

Administrator accounts in Windows (and therefore viruses that exploit it) have access to all areas of the operating system. In Mac OS X, even an administrator can’t touch the files that drive the operating system itself. A Mac OS X virus (if there were such a thing) could theoretically wipe out all of your files, but wouldn’t be able to access anyone else’s stuff — and couldn’t touch the operating system itself.

No Macintosh e-mail program automatically runs scripts that come attached to incoming messages, as Microsoft Outlook does.

Also ihr lieben: Kopf hoch und durch!