[techweenie]

"Nothing against Apple, but I think its (mostly) that "the boyz in Redmond" are a bigger fatter target."

There's a lot of truth in that. The industry pundits speak of the danger of a 'monoculture' and one of the dangers is that there's a single, juicy target for 90%+ of the world's naughty nerds.

Microsoft put out a terrible product that 21 years later is still a security nightmare. Add to that corporate actions that put a lot of companies out of business, and you have an 'enemies list' that's longer than (you know who)'s.

The announcement of theoretical security issues in OSX will only increase as (if) their market share does.

Still, OSX is based on FreeBSD, which has been hammered out by a lot of folks over a long time...