Quote - If 99% of the world were using Mac's or *nix, we'd be talking about what a secure operating system  Windows is. :)

Whether it was meant as a serious thought or more in the vein of jesting as the smiley might indicate, I have never really understood that attitude. Just because the codebase of one system has design flaws, does not mean that the codebase or every system is equally flawed.

Considering that most of the Internet runs on *nix systems even down to everybody's favourite friend - Google - and to our favourite past-time forum (www.renderosity.com, which runs on CentOS Linux), I find it pretty funny even to suggest that "sure when Macs and Linuxes are popular, they will get as much crap and viruses and malware and whatnots shoved down their throat as Windows does now".  People suggesting that  *nix systems are full of security holes just waiting to be found by criminals are usually conveniently ignoring how popular *nix systems actually are behind the scenes. Could be just ignorance though.

90% of the users may be using MS Windows as their surfing board, but the waves are mainly provided by Red Hat, Novell, IBM, HP, Sun etc. and none of their OS's is named Windows. Surely controlling the waves should be more important to criminals than affecting single surfers? That is not the case, however. I leave it to the readers to decide why that is.