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Originally Posted by PorscheGAL
Because there are so few macs in comparison to windows machines there are virtually no virus. No crashing.
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1st part is completely incorrect. Has nothing to do with market share. Before OS X the installed base of Macs was smaller and there were hundreds of Apple Viruses. OS X is not immune and a virus can be written for any OS. The challenge of infecting a machine without direct access to it and creating a virus that can actually replicate and spread is what's so difficult.
And they do crash, just not very often and an application crashing does not take out the whole system. Kill the process and start it again.
As far as the Norton stuff, the biggest virus threats for OS X have come from the Anti Virus guys.
Article is a couple of years old but you'll get the point
http://www.macfixit.com/article.php?story=20060511065134478