[publiusF27]

Nine years of OS X and counting and still no need to run anti-virus, anti-spyware, or any other protective applications.

Yeah, but no hacker wants to bother being known as the guy who only cracked a few tens of millions of Macs when he could have been working on cracking a few hundred million PC's. These guys know numbers, and don't want to look like fools! ;-)

[Swordmaker]

Yeah, but no hacker wants to bother being known as the guy who only cracked a few tens of millions of Macs when he could have been working on cracking a few hundred million PC's. These guys know numbers, and don't want to look like fools! ;-)

Right. No cracker wants to be famous as the first guy to write a self-replicating, self-transmitting virus that breeched the vaunted and well known imperviousness of Mac OS X; he'd rather be just one of the hundreds of thousands of "me too"s who have easily assailed the ramparts of Windows and remain lost in the crowd.