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Originally Posted by Hack&Lube
Mac OS is basically a shell over Unix which is pretty secure. It's not as easy for malware to get in without super user root access but as we can see here, it's doable. The higher the marketshare Mac has, the more it makes economic sense to start introducing more malware.
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i'd argue that with Windows 7 and the User Account Control center, they may be just as secure as a base Unix build such as MacOS. from all the Windows 7 installations i've rolled out at work, home, and for family, not once have i run into a malware infection. we still deal with a ton of Windows XP malware infections at work though, but we've been rolling out 7 more and more and it seems quite secure even with the mouth breathers that use it
and if the rumors are true about making Windows 8 run everything in a
virtualization layer, it would easily take the crown of most secure OS away from Unix