Sure, for now. Wait for it. There’s vast quantities of dumb people out there. Eventually, if the user base keeps growing, you’ll get enough running as root to start some virus fun in Mac. It’s part of the inevitable evolution of users. Now Mac gets some additional safety because there is that barrier between Admin and Root so people can be lazy and not god, that’ll help. But there’s always going to be the crowd that wants to run with ALL the privileges to just stroke their ego or whatever, and those are the people that keep AV software in business.
Well, I wouldn’t necessarily say that there are going to be users who want to do that (i.e., running all the time in root). I mean, there have been a very few times that I do that.
I suspect most of your hard-core users, who are wanting to do things that most users don’t, will want to go to the terminal window and run the UNIX commands, instead... LOL...
The *vast and overwhelming majority* of Macintosh users (and even the power users) simply don’t run in root. It’s really not necessary. And..., like I said, most users, even if they wanted to run in root, probably couldn’t figure out how to do so... :-)
It’s just not going to happen. And remember, the Macs have been around for a very long time, the user base keeps expanding and the Mac OS X operating system has been around for a long time, too. These things were “warned about” before, but they are just not happening.
It will be another five years, 10 years — and I’ll guarantee you that there will be people saying, “Well, you just wait; it will happen...” and we will be waiting and nothing will happen...