Conficker

I'm tired of the confusing web of technological garbage that we read on technical sites concerning security advisories. Ignorant people blame Microsoft for leaving vulnerabilities, claiming that Apple is "immune" to viruses that can infect Microsoft based software. These are the same idiots that blame Google for pulling up a bad site with their search engine.

The bottom line is this, if you have router and/or firewall properly configured and up-to-date antivirus software then at current you are protected against 99.9% of the threats that can occur from the outside. For the most part, only System and Network Administrators need worry about internal attacks that may require applying patches to Operating Systems that cover holes that are only exposed if you are inside the network (beyond the router/firewall) in the first place.

Claiming that Apple or Linux is a better operating system is as dumb as saying my cat is healthier than I am because it can't catch the same cold I can. Of course it can't--it's a different species and it's genetic makeup doesn't respond to your cold. It catches other viruses that we can't catch and vice versa. But if we were in a war, what good would it do to create a biological weapon to kill off all the cats if you could create one to wipe out the human army and win the war? This is why there are more Microsoft Viruses than Apple or Linux ones. They are simply more profitable or more destructive, whichever evil the author intends. A barn is no less secure than Fort Knox just because no one ever thinks of robbing it. By now, you would think this would be common sense to anyone with any experience in the technical field but I can tell you, it is not. This, my friend, is the bare naked truth. I would argue against Microsoft because I believe in competition and they have reached a level of domination that is clearly on the verge of Monopolizing the market. I would not, however, make blind accusations that another Operating System is better because it is incapable of getting a virus.