Typically,
that accused party is positioning itself as the "safe" operating system
is with a variety of arguments, such as supported by the community,
have a
layered defense, programmed by the think of security factors, and so
on.
If we talk about security, basically the operating system is man-made and man-made is nothing perfect. This makes any operating system always have weakness that when it found it would be the hole to attacked.
So,
the real question is not about whether an operating system is safe or
not, but whether the operating system is quite interesting to be
attacked or not. If there is one operating system market share getting more than 70%, it's very difficult to not get people interested to and make malware to attack it.
This
assumption can be demonstrated on Microsoft Windows operating system,
it has been a long time since it popular for dekstop user and use in
many corporate, Windows Operating System has been the most delicious to
be target of virus attack in the realm of PC. But
in other side, the Windows Mobile operating system which incidentally
also come from Microsoft is not attractive for malware authors.
But in the realm of smartphones, the ruler of the largest market share is the
green robot Android that uses the Linux kernel. This
operating system is phenomenal because just in a few years this android
now able to control the world market share of smartphone and installed
on 200 million
devices per November 2011.
This very large market share by Android is inviting the criminals who want to get profit by creating malware. So at
present, it can be said that Android is the most sexy smartphone operating system and become the target for malware authors.
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