Good advice. For my business side stuff I have a Windows laptop that I never connect to the Inet (not live, anyway - I download stuff to my main box and then wire it to the laptop), and for all the rest I have an older tower running Linux Fedora 10 using Firefox as the browser. Linux has proven itself over the many years to be robust and virus free.
Odds are, it has to do more with the small number of linux computers out there. The people who write the malware programs are doing it for the money, not for just kicks.
Now that Apple has reached a certain number of computer users, it’s a viable target and is now being attacked.
From what I’ve read, Apple is just as vulnerable, despite denials because they’ve never had to deal with dedicated attacks as Windows has.
It will be interesting, over time, how well Apple deals with it and, if Apple has more success with it.