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"Look being a Microsoft kneee padder "

That remark, coming from Mac holly warrior has got to be very amusing indeed.

"to say tat if MS and MAC each had 50% market share they would eacher have the exact same problem with spyware and viruses is just plain stupid."

We are talking hypothetically here of course.
Let's face it, Apple will never get 50% of PC sales, unless they moved to Pluto, and even then Microsoft will still clobber 'em.

But if they both had 50%, of course far more virus writers will attack Macs than do do right now.
Its a bit like that Firefox browser.
For years we kept getting a daily barage of propaganda saying Firefox was "safe".
But the moment Firefox market share rose to 6% in 2004, the # of viruses for Firefox jumped dramatically (we have a thread somewhere here on FREEP in which the # of viruses for Firefox jumped to 55 in 2004 from less than 20 or so for the whole 3 years plus between 2000 and 2003).

Top armed robbers simply don't break into poor people's homes that much.
They concentrate their efforts on the homes of the rich and on business.

That remark, coming from Mac holly warrior has got to be very amusing indeed.

Umm Spunky I dont own a Mac (though my wife does), I use Windows and Linux... Next question?

But if they both had 50%, of course far more virus writers will attack Macs than do do right now.

No one here disputed there will be more attacks the question is how many of them will be successful?

But the moment Firefox market share rose to 6% in 2004, the # of viruses for Firefox jumped dramatically

First, they're not viruses. Second, they are rarely as severe as those in IE (better architecture). Third, Mozilla has had lots of security bugs through the years. You only know about the recent ones since you only recently discovered that Firefox exists.