“Academic proofs of concept and theoretical vulnerabilities don’t count. Neither do computer worms, Trojan horses, spyware, adware, spam or any of the other nasty species in the zoology of malware,” Elmer-DeWitt reports.
“The issue comes up anew because Apple’s latest Get a Mac ads are once again hammering PC for those “thousands of viruses” to which Microsoft operating systems and application suites are heir. And that, in turn, has led to a resurgence of comments in this space to the effect that a) Macs are just as vulnerable as PCs and b) the only thing that protects them is their miniscule market share,” Elmer-DeWitt reports. “Those ideas, while widely promulgated on the Web, are wrong.”
Elmer-DeWitt reports, “The fact that Mac OS X represents less than 4% of the worldwide installed base of computers might explain why there are fewer Mac viruses. But it wouldn’t explain why there are none.”
MacDailyNews Take: This sounds sooo familiar… 
Elmer-DeWitt continues, “There have been hundreds, if not thousands, of PC viruses (see partial list), a handful of Mac OS 9 viruses, and not one for Mac OS X.”
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[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader "JES42" for the heads up.]
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