I run Linux and Windows and wish I had a Mac, but I can't imagine anyone suffering viruses on a daily basis, nor can I really blame Microsoft. If as many people ran Macs as they do Windows, Mac viruses would be as common as dirt. Viruses for Macs pop up every once in a while but tend not to spread much because there are just so few Macs around.I've only had one virus in my life and that was when a client stuck an infected floppy in a work machine about 8 years ago. I cleaned up the machine and had no problems.
The FBI doesn't agree with you - http://www.securityfocus.com/cgi-bin/sfonline/columnists-item.pl?id=215
Untrue. In three years there have been NO OS-X virus found.
It is not just that the Macs have a smaller footprint in the computer world, it is that they are an order of magnatude more secure than a Windows box. According to some very high powered computer security experts, the difficulty of writing a virus for OS-X is a 10 on a scale of 1-10 while writing a Windows virus is a 1 or a 2. Executable code cannot be installed on a Macintosh OS-X box without the explicit permission of the Administrator of the computer. To even impact the core operating system, a user would have to have Root level access. No Macintosh user operates in Root... 99% of Windows users operate in the equivalent of Root, allowing any program running on the computer to modify system files.