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InfoWorld has published an interesting article: “Is Windows inherently more vulnerable to malware attacks than OS X?“

This article points out weak security points on Windows.

My favorites are:

• Windows requires that users log in with administrative privileges to install software, which causes many to use privileged accounts for day-to-day usage
• Windows requires extraordinary effort to extract the path to, and the files and TCP/UDP ports opened by, running services, and to certify that they are valid (note from me: and it is also painful when you are working on web applications and want to check what is happening!)
• Access to the massive, arcane, nearly unstructured, non-human-readable Windows Registry, which was to be obsolete by now, remains the only resource a Windows attacker needs to analyze and control a Windows system

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