In article , Davoud wrote:

Paul Schlyter:

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.

This is a myth. Are you saying that hackers and virus authors have no
interest in attacking people like these

No -- I'm merely saying they have less interest in this. I mean,
suppose you were a virus author wanting to cause as much damage
as possible. Would you then choose to target your attack at some
mainstream OS, or at some nice OS used by relatively few people?


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As for "mainstream, I think that Unix is in sufficiently wide use to be
considered a mainstream OS. In its various guises it is certainly the
target of more attacks than MS OS's.

....and sometimes these attacks have been successful. Consider for
instance the Morris worm some 10+ years ago, which used a
vulnerability in the sendmail program.

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