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Originally Posted by Cowboy89
You have to figrue that a big reason for mac's having less/no viruses has to do with their tiny market share in the personal computer market. It's simply not profitable for scammers/adwarers to prey on the 2-5% of users that use mac's. As they get more popular a day will come when macs are just as useless as PC's when it comes to viruses/adware/spyware.
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Not really. Part of it is that Mac OSX architecture is inherently safer than previous versions of windows. Just because Mac OSX makes the actual user run under an account that doesn't have full permissions to the entire system. Where as in Windows, the user was always running as administrator. Same goes with users of *NIX systems. Unless those users are complete ID 10 T 's, they are not running as root.