That's what I've been saying for a while, but the Mac haters always say no, nobody's interested because of marketshare. BS, there are a lot of hackers out there who do it for glory. OS X will get malware in the wild for it, eventually. It is inevitable.
If there were a virus that only spread by person to person contact and only red-haired people with blue eyes could catch it, it wouldn't successfully replicate.
Like red headed, blue eyed people, Macs are actually kind of rare.
A new Gartner report (reported by AppleInsider) notes that despite increased sales, the Mac has yet to gain a market share increase.The report, however, partially conflicts with a previous ZDNet report based on preliminary Gartner data.
Worldwide Mac Market Share
1Q 2005: 2.2%
1Q 2006 (ZDNet): 2.3%
1Q 2006 (AI): 2.0%
Like their cyber counterparts, biological viruses do not infect everyone who is exposed. Lets say we have a really virulent virus that successfully infects 10% of those exposed. You are now looking at .2% of the computers in operation having to be in contact with another member of the .2% vulnerable community. Odds of random contact are about 1 in 500. If the virus spreads at all, it will spread VERY slowly.
Since hacking is all about reputation, there is no real incentive to create a virus that will likely never be noticed. Now that Jobs has thrown down the gauntlet, SOME hackers have taken notice, but, trust me, the really talented, nasty, hackers in Eastern Europe and Asia are in it for the bucks, and there ain't no bucks in hacking Macs.