Apple said in a statement that it “takes security very seriously and has a great track record of addressing potential vulnerabilities before they can affect users.”

Ha ha ha, thats rich coming from them considering they’ve had problems acknowledging security holes in Safari in past which allowed a cracker to remotely take over the Mac running it and then they had troubles fixing those holes which often took them 2-3 attempts at patches to fix eventually!!

Agree with @jp saying that the only reason people (not fanboys) buy their stuff is because it looks good & because they’ve a great marketing team which can sell sand at gold’s price!!

The reason PCs get all the viruses is Market Share. Ask yourself, if you were going to spend the time and take the risk to make a virus, would you target PC or Mac? Alot more people have PCs, and since the majority of what people call “viruses” these days are profit motivated, wouldn’t you target where you would get the most profit?

Rest assured, as Mac gets more and more market share, the will get more and more viruses. Duh.

BTW, just thought I’d throw in, Macs break just as much as PCs do as well. For those if you that don’t know I also run a small business http://SanDiegoComputerRepair.com, where I get plenty of broken Macs in the shop. I like the broken Macs, more people agree to have them fixed rather than just buying a replacement. After all look how much money they spent on their Mac. It is a regular thing to have someone bring in a Mac that when the customer turns it on all it does is make a Mac “Sad Face” ad them, and next thing you know they’ve got to cross their fingers and write me a big check for Data Recovery. Macs like to go down without any warning. With PC at least your computer gives out some symptoms before a crash.

Personally I think that Apple is mocking its customers with those “Sad Faces”. The customers never find it funny though. So why does everyone think that Macs are so much better? IMHO I think its because Apple is a marketing machine. Apple could go on TV and convince everyone that a pile of poo is worth $2k and people would buy it. Kudos to their marketing group. I’m not saying Macs are bad computers, they just aren’t worth the $$$$ or the hype.

Hardly a problem with Mac “security” considering you had to type in your password in order for the install to go through.

Hell, that could happen on your Commodore 64 as well.

So on the Mac you install “LittleSnitch” and the first time the program you mistakenly installed phones home, you get a warning regarding the contact with the unknown site, and can recognise the problem.