Don't take it personally. I didn't say that Mac was or wasn't susceptible to Adware specifically. I was only pointing out that Mac operating systems have had their fair share of problems along with all the rest.
You probably wouldn't know this because my interactions with Mac users indicate that they live in a bubble, and because Apple isn't exactly forthright with timely notification about deficiencies in the products.
Here's ONE - http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/24856
I'm not your personal security consultant, so you'll have to find the rest on your own, and if I were you I'd get to work because I've got a folder full of them that all apply to OSX.
Things are very much different in the Windows world. Like you, I pretty much refuse to use their dreadful products except when it's simply unavoidable.
You probably wouldn't know this because my interactions with Mac users indicate that they live in a bubble, and because Apple isn't exactly forthright with timely notification about deficiencies in the products. Here's ONE - http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/24856 It is interesting that your ONE example isn't about an apple product and can't affect the Mac system at all. Those exploits don't work on Mac's because buffer overflows don't compromise the system. All that they can accomplish is crashing the program and that gets the hackers nothing, zip, zero, nada.
I'm not your personal security consultant, so you'll have to find the rest on your own, and if I were you I'd get to work because I've got a folder full of them that all apply to OSX.
And strangely none of these 'exploits' ever seem to pan out. I bet you don't have a clue as to why, do you? It is primarily due to hooks that Windows put in its operating system to allow programmers more control. Take out the hooks and Windows would be half the way to a much more secure system. But then none of the old programs would work and people might look at better OS's. What's Microsoft supposed to do? LOL