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  Is Windows inherently more vulnerable to malware attacks than OS X?
Time: 16:21 EST/21:21 GMT | News Source: InfoWorld | Posted By: Andre Da Costa

It took an attack on a Windows production server, not devotion to Apple, to put that provocative title on this entry. On August 13 at 3:04 AM, a Windows server that I've been running for all of two weeks--it just replaced an Xserve G5--was attacked by a new strain of malware. This worm/trojan/backdoor/proxy/IRCbot/DDOS agent shared some characteristics with a known exploit, but it went well beyond what was described. I believed at the time of the infection, and even more strongly now, that this exploit's latent damage potential has been underestimated. I view the terse and vague update on the CERT site regarding the less tenacious strain of this beast with a sense of foreboding.

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