Did I say Linux or BSD didn't have vulnerabilities or had never been exploited? There are rootkits and FreeBSD was vulnerable to the Li0n worm. I don't use Linux so I'm not that familiar with exploits for it.
I won't post another link or story, I'll just refer you to the OP:
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WASHINGTON, DCThe Justice Department announced Monday that over the weekend an international law enforcement operation had effectively disrupted a sprawling botnet that delivered Gameover ZeuSa trojan that siphoned passwords to online banking sites from Microsoft Windows computersas well as the malicious ransomware Cryptolocker, which locks individuals out of their own files until they agree to pay ransom to the criminals
ZeuS and Cryptolocker both target Windows computers, not Linux or BSD, as I assume do most if not all all the 100,000-200,000 daily malware submissions to AV vendors mentioned in the article I already provided.
If you choose to stay with Windows, for whatever reason, that's your decision. I just hope you don't feel like you have to "take out" anyone who writes malware for it.