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Re: Lies!

said by kapil See Profile :

Yes, thanks to a concept us IT and Security folk call security-through-obscurity.

There isn't as much malware targeted at Apple products because the criminals profit more by targeting Windows machines since there are many more of them.
I believe that is certainly part of it. Part if it is the amount of user intervention required for propagation as was the case with the LEAP-A worm where it required user installation like any other program including providing admin privs. The biggest is that these lab discovered exploits are often quickly patched making propagation impossible.

But the simple fact that OS X users don't face threats from the wild won't stop Windows user FUD about these threats (which was the subject of the OP).

No one denies that exploits exist, only that the exploits are ever exploited in the wild.
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