Apple's Snow Leopard Protections Weaker Than Windows 7's
Memory protections in Snow Leopard are still too weak, though it shows other improvements
Apple has been bragging about the security of its new operating system, OS X 10.6 "Snow Leopard". Leaping from Leopard to Snow Leopard, Apple gives its users limited antivirus/anti-malware protection (the feature currently only detects two signatures out of a handful of known OS X malware signatures).
Still, security experts aren't so hot on Snow Leopard, criticizing the operating system's default firewall setting of "off", its lack of fully automatic updates, and weak anti-phishing efforts for Safari. They also weren't impressed that Apple shipped with a vulnerable version of Flash, which downgrade users from the safer current version.
