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Originally Posted by MAXUM

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The only reason why MACs and LINUX os's haven't seen the number of exploits as Windows is simply that Windows is a much larger target due to market share. Not that either on is fundamentally more secure.

The quantity of each platform and the correlation to virus and exploit issues is an oft-repeated urban myth.

Linux is widely used on webservers around the world. Apple has been eating steady marketshare away from Windows in the consumer market for years now. Both have installations of 10's, if not hundreds, of millions of active machines. Plenty enough to make them a target of virii and exploits.

Each OS has its own pros and cons, and the security of the core OS itself is one thing, then there is how easy that OS (or other pre-installed software like IE) makes it for rogue code to be downloaded and executed.

The core of the Windows OS is pretty secure. Their UI model and other aspects of the software, not so much. Windows is "secure", but more easily exploited than linux or OSX due to how applications can be installed and run without direct user interaction or awareness.