Who says I’m not running Linux, Unix, or MacOS on my PC box? That’s the great thing - I get to choose what I want.
The savvy computer user knows which files to open and which to not open. I never run antivirus on any of my PC’s and have yet to get a virus. Of course, in an office environment, it is a necessity since many users don’t know what they’re doing and could compromise the network with a few clicks.
The only reason Mac’s don’t have a big issue with viruses is because most people don’t use Macs. Virus scripters create viruses that will cause the greatest impact and are written for the operating systems with which they are most familiar - Windows.
The worst thing that could happen to you is that everyone starts buying Macs. When power users start using them, the viruses will follow.
You said — The only reason Mac’s don’t have a big issue with viruses is because most people don’t use Macs.
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Ummm..., so that means, that being a “good shopper” — I should be looking around for the computer that has the most viruses... That way, I’ll make sure I have the best computer to use.... LOL...
Is that why virus writers wrote the Witty Worm to infect all 12,000 of the vulnerable Windows PCs that had not updated their Black Ice Firewall—closing the vulnerability Witty used—six months before? Every single vulnerable computer was infected less than 45 minutes after Witty was released into the wild.
I suppose that sheer numbers of available targets was the reason hackers wrote viruses that attacked and infected 30,000 cellular phones? Was it also the reason crackers wrote viruses to infect the 200 or so iPods that had been converted to run on Linux?
These are all considered sufficiently large enough target populations to attack by malware writers with their viruses and malware, but 35,000,000 OS X Macs, running completely naked to the world without anti-malware, are not? Get real.
The fact is that on the internet, every computer is virtually next door to every other computer.
Incidentally, have you watched the BBC documentary "Six Degrees of Separation"? It is all about the new science of networking... and mapping the internet shows that EVERY website on the Internet is only 4 to 6 links from any other... and ergo, every computer is that close as well. It is an extremely interesting documentary. You can watch it HERE.
And on a Mac, you can do all of those... at the same time.