Paul Schlyter wrote:

In article ,
John Steinberg wrote:
Jon Isaacs wrote:

Here's a nice link:

http://antivirus.about.com/cs/macintoshthreats/

What's nice about it? There are no Mac OS X threats (other than
clueless PC users, careless programmers and a behemoth in Redmond that
can spend many months creating a single critical patch.) None, Jon. No
malware of any consequence for OS X.

People who are religious zealots about their favourite computers are
amusing -- up to a point....

The reason there are relatively few threats to OS X is that it has
fairly few users. If it should become a mainstream OS, then it
would be just as intensely targeted by virus authors as Windows is
today.

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Hi Paul--There is the implied assumption that Linux, Unix and Mac OS X
have just as many vulnerabilities as NT and Windows.... I'm not sure that
that is the case. Granted all operating systems have vulnerabilities,
but I'd like to see some statistics that show the others are no
better than Microsoft.

I've been in the UNIX/Linux/OS X environment since 1989... have been
part of the cyber wars... I seem much more secure than my Microsoft
colleagues and friends.

-Sam