Comments on: Is Intel a safe bet for Apple security?

Macs have largely been immune to the viruses that plague Windows PCs. Experts pitch in on whether the Intel chip switch will change that.

[Earl Benser]

MS is the security issue....

... not Intel. A poorly designed, poorly written, and poorly
implemented OS created the security problem. The processor just
did what it was told.

[Hernys]

Really?

It's not a problem MS has, Linux distros and Apple have about the same number of critical vulnerabilities as any recent Windows release does.
Just this may Apple released in a single day 20 security fixes for OS X Tiger (just a week after the OS launch). If MS announced a similar number of vulnerabilities a week after a product launch they would be crucifixed. But somehow when Apple does it's just ignored.

[Chung Leong]

NX? Doesn't PowerPC have that since inception?

Page level memory protection was part of the PowerPC design from the very beginning if I'm not mistaken. All NX does is fix a defect in the x86 architecture. Funny how it became a marketable security feature.

security depends on OS not in processor

Jobs will continue using the robust (virus_free) Darwin-Unix Mac
OS X.

Where exactly is the security fear?

I'm still waiting for some attack (and I'm 24/265 online) with
Panther...