Mac Security: OSX.Exploit.MetaData.B Trojan 3263
Anyone who has been around CSMA knows a bit about my daughter's Compaq Presario. It had several hard drives, a new motherboard, USB...
Also, there used to be viruses on the previous Macintosh OS, which had an even lower market share.
Its an editorial that presents several facts and then bases its opinion upon them. You seem to think that editorials contain nothing but lies and fairy tales. If you want to dispute the...
That there are no viruses on the Mac just says that the OS is relatively better than before (and demonstrably better than Windows) in this area, and I would say that it's largely in the implementation, and in the lack of certain "features". There's not a tremendous amount of difference in the general security concepts used in both systems. Just enough, so far, to make the Mac the big winner in that area.
While there are fewer bugs in the OS itself, compared to Windows, I expect to see malware in places like Dashboard widgets, and security holes other third-party software, and the current OS will not be able to do very about those. Apple has issued a bunch of security updates this year, so obviously there were holes in some of their apps and maybe even in the OS (I didn't study the release notes).
There are ways to make a much more secure operating system, but nobody (for some value of "nobody") is bothering to do that yet. OS X will have an easier time, since it is based on Unix, and the "better things" I refer to have already been implemented in some versions of Unix. Apple will "just" have to incorporate them. Microsoft is screwed by their own various legacy constraints and awful code base.