: How are phones so resistant to virus’s but usually computers arent?
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In general, mobile phones are far more locked down: the OS is designed to give individual apps only the permissions needed for the app to run and those the user has explicitly granted, and should not be able to access storage outside of that assigned to the app unless given permission. Any tampering of system files or the startup process will cause the device to fail to startup
Historically, desktop operating systems are more permissive: anything that’s granted admin permission often will have nearly limitless control over all storage, and ordinary programs have read/write permission to the user’s individual profile folders without any extra permissions (although Windows has heavily changed these defaults in recent versions)
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