Yes, I disagree with dayglored in this rare minor instance. . . 60,000,000 Macs in the wild back then was not obscure, and never was, no matter what dayglored might think of that number. At least I have the courtesy to put him in the address field when I mention him in the post, which you don't.
Dayglored is, however, quite correct that OSX and now macOS, its successor, have been built from the ground up with security in mind starting from a solid foundation built on UNIX, and in fact they ARE the most popular sold trademarked UNIX™ sold in the world today. . . but there is not much more malware out there in the wild that impacts it today than there was ten years ago, and even then it's easily avoided and removed.
Ten years ago there were about 60 Trojans in just five Trojan families, while now there are less than three times that number now in eight Trojan families, and every one of them is identifiable and included in the built-in protections—which are updated daily—provided by the operating system.
There are still ZERO self-propagating, self-replicating, self-installing true viable computer viruses for Apple OSX/macOS in the wild, or even ever been presented in the lab, which has been the case in the two decades Apple's OS has been in the wild. That is quite a record of security. That is not a amazingly small number of security threats compared to the literally millions of malware that exist in the Windows environment. Yet YOU dance and scamper about claiming non-existent dire danger for Apple users due to some perceived problems you think exist that every Apple user is too stupid to see.
Dayglored cut you much more slack and gave your specious evidence-less "security through obscurity" claims more of a hearing than I am willing to provide after way too many years of hearing more-and-more sack-cloth and ashes of Apple is doomed to follow Windows into a morass of malware, and it NEVER HAPPENING.
Other than what I've responded above, I'm not going to dance with you on this issue in your attempts to start a war, Pipsqueak. You are fading to a mere flea.
