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[JackoliciousLegs]

The only thing "safer" about using a mac, read: linux, is that there may be more kernel security, but trust me, if 90% of the world used macs, viruses would be just as rampant.

Um... proprietary unix actually. And if there was incentive to write mac viruses?!?! Macs now own 20% of the laptop market share in the US. Not incentive enough? Maybe it'd be enough just to shove it back in the mac fanboys' faces?

There has been hundreds of thousands of dollars offered for writing a simple mac virus or hacking a mac. The closest thing that's showed up is an IM virus that relies on a user executing code on their local system... i.e. the ignorance of the user
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All mac fanboyism aside, you can't compare the security/stability of a Mac to the security of Windows (XP... not much experience with Vista). You just can't.