Windows (NT flavours, not 9x) with proper security patches is pretty safe too. As is outlook; if you're careful to lock doors and do safety checks on a regular basis. Wyldesnake is right in identifying the logic of erm, "marketing" towards the masses as opposed to the few. I think there would be just as many security flaws found in all OS's if they too were more popular. Window's takes a lot of bashing but one thing it did that no other OS manufacturer has ever been able to do is make a GUI that the average Non-geek can use. Geek being the artistic or techie type. I feel that all OS's have their place and their uses. One day perhaps we will see a whole new creation that tops all that we have now.