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Your posts chide Mac users for being smug about security issues, but you’ve also claimed that the Mac OS is “inherently more secure than Windows.” You can’t have it both ways.

I can't? Why not? Begging your pardon, I most certainly can, and do have it both ways. More secure doesn't mean impervious to attack, and while you will certainly get no argument from me about OS X being a more secure platform, the attitude that it cannot possibly be exploited is wrong headed. I am interested in how you may have come to this conclusion however. Do hacker sites have archives which go back six years that you have diligently researched? If so, I hope that you'll find a way to share the results of your research with us at some point.

I won't be sharing any results, and my information about the timing and nature of collaborative macking come from others in the field that have been in this game much longer than I have. I guess you'll just have to take my word for it. Or not. It matters not to me. You can’t install anything on my Mac without my permission. Why can you install something on Windows without my permission?

Set up a non-administrator account, then deny permission for modifying the registry in the mandatory profile you set up to do day to day tasks on the machine and let your worries end. Windows default security is pretty light, but it's there if you want it.

More secure doesn't mean impervious to attack...

Really? You say that as if you have made a second monumental discovery. (The first being that hackers are trying to hack the Mac.) You may continue to argue with your imaginary generic Mac user, but I have never claimed that Macs are impervious to anything. What, then, is exactly the source of your anger? Are you mad that none of your sources "in the field" have been able to launch the kind of weekly assault on the Mac that they have been able to inflict on Windows? I have no problem believing that hackers are going after the Mac. How do you think Apple and the Mac community will respond? Do the sources in the field think that they will launch ONE attack so massive that they will damage Apple forever? We've seen the kind of things these guys are capable of doing. (Windows has a history.) But people recover, systems get repaired. Your whole premise seems to be that hackers are hoppin' mad at Apple, but it wasn't always that way. This is something new. The hacker community was simply ignoring the Mac platform, they were ambivalent, but that TV commercial was the last straw!

Set up a non-administrator account, then deny permission for modifying the registry in the mandatory profile you set up to do day to day tasks on the machine and let your worries end.

You do then run into the problem that in many cases the computer will then be unusable for day-to-day tasks, because so many things in Windows want Administrator. My wife has a simple game that won't even run if you're not Administrator.