Did you read the article? It says 2.7% are infected with OSX malware.
And someone else posted on this thread where windows 7 is only infected at 0.4% rate.
Last I checked 2.7% > 0.4%.
No. You're comparing malware that's 'present' and malware that's 'infecting.' The 2.7% for Macs specifically says it's all malware that's present. That means it includes malware that hasn't infected the computer. The 0.4% for Windows 7 specifically says it's malware that's infected the computer.
Second, the studies appear to take into account two different sets of computers within the operating systems. For Windows 7, Microsoft looked at computers pulled from the full set of all Windows 7 computers (and found that the rate of infection was increasing at 30% per year). For OS X, Sophos (not Apple) looked at only the subset of those Macs running Sophos.
That's a curious subset, because installing Sophos disables part of the OS X that prevents certain malware from downloading. Sophos permits the download and then identifies the file as malware. The subset of OS X computers running Sophos should show a higher percentage of malware present than the set of all OS X computers. And it's malware present, not infections. Microsoft is noting infections in the entire set of Windows 7 computers.
The two studies compare apples and oranges - malware present versus malware infections, and from a select subset of computers running the operating system versus all computers running the operating system.
The studies don't provide the data to make a comparative analysis.
You still don’t seem to understand that it is the windows 7 on the mac that is infected not the mac side.Believe whatever you want it is nothing to me so enjoy yourself basking in false superiority.