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Story: Outrage at Symantec's OS X claims

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Posted by: Anonymous (Tuesday 22 March 2005, 10:40 PM)

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Since the Mac installed base is significantly non-zero, how come the number of active Mac OS X viruses and worms is zero? This would indicate that the problem is not directly tied to market share as Symantec claims, and may have more to do with the relatively secure nature of OS X itself.

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