Irrelevant. The question is whether they would bother to write any malware at all for it. And, yes, I do consider Windows 7 to be a very good OS.
it's not irrelevant at all as it goes to the second part of my statement on why OS X hasn't had many viruses/malware in the wild. It's tiny userbase PLUS it's secure enough to keep most users safe. Meaning you need to get the dumbest of the dumb OS X users tricked into going to your site. Why bother when there are way more windows users. That's WHY you don't see much malware on OSX. So it is very relevant.
Changing the argument to say worms have attacked smaller installs is just asinine. They are completely different. A worm will self-replicate making it easier to target and attack machines that are vulnerable to the attack. Malware getting installed by dumb users is a lot more involved and take a lot more time to hit many users especially when you are targeting only 5% of the computer market.
it's not irrelevant at all as it goes to the second part of my statement on why OS X hasn't had many viruses/malware in the wild. It's tiny userbase PLUS it's secure enough to keep most users safe. Meaning you need to get the dumbest of the dumb OS X users tricked into going to your site. Why bother when there are way more windows users. That's WHY you don't see much malware on OSX. So it is very relevant.
Changing the argument to say worms have attacked smaller installs is just asinine. They are completely different. A worm will self-replicate making it easier to target and attack machines that are vulnerable to the attack. Malware getting installed by dumb users is a lot more involved and take a lot more time to hit many users especially when you are targeting only 5% of the computer market.