[stomachmonkey]

First off. Report released by F-Secure who have a vested interest in trying to sell Mac users security products. Much like Symantec have been doing for years. Ironically the biggest security threat to Macs was due to Symantecs product. It had a hole that left the machine LESS secure than if it did not have any 3rd party products installed.

They call them variants which indicates they are mods of previous source code. I read that as someone tried to write one or two that don't really work and others are trying to make them work.

To date there have been only 2 viruses found "in the wild". Everything else has been experimental stuff done in security labs.

Some definitions. Virus, has the ability to infect, replicate and spread all by itself. Sorry but none exist for OS X and the nature of the OS's architecture make it a task of monumental proportion. OS X is open source so for every bad guy out there there are 100 good guys finding and contributing to fixing potential holes before they can be exploited.

Malware. A piece of software that does something bad. Well anyone can write malicious code for any OS. The trick is getting someone to run it. On windows you can execute Malware without the user knowing it. In the case of last years OS X Malware the user actively downloaded and autohrized the installation of the software. It did not happen on it's own without the users knowledge. It worked because the user downloaded an application that was not what it claimed to be, it was basically a phising scam. The OS was not insecure, it was bad judgement on the end users part.

Lack of market share is BS. Apple sell millions of boxes a year. OS X has been out for 7-8 years. 100 Million computers is not a large enough target?

Hackers are not driven by money, they are driven by "cred". You can't tell me that they are not highly motivated by pulling off something that they are told they can't. Apple running TV spots and very blatantly waving a red cape in their faces is not enough motivation?

In fact there were a few "contests" that offered cash prizes for anyone that could hack a target Mac that had been placed on the net. No winners. Lots of people tried but no one succeeded.