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“It is now clear that the Mac OS is increasingly becoming a target for the malicious activity, contrary to popular belief that the Mac OS is immune to traditional security concerns,” the report said.

IMO, that sense of security comes less from a confidence in the Mac OS, than it does from a near-religious conviction on the part of Mac users that hackers really only hate Microsoft.

I won't pile all Mac users into that box, but in my experience there are a lot of people for whom "being a Mac user" includes a hefty dose of evangelistic zeal.

As for the hackers, they do include a goodly number of anti-MS types. But hackers are hackers first, and Mac OS is just another target.

[Izzy Dunne]

a near-religious conviction on the part of Mac users that hackers really only hate Microsoft.

Well, I'm a Mac user (as well as Windows when I have to), and I would argue the exact opposite.

Hackers don't hate Microsoft - they LOVE Microsoft.