It appears that Linux and Mac are no harder than Windows, and that they too are prone to viruses. It is just that about 90% of the world’s PCs are run by windows, and that the hackers have no fun in hacking the remaining 10% of the PCs of the world.

The number of viruses in Linux are limited. And they too seem to be simple viruses, not any more complicated than the ones that are attacking windows. People these days use Linux since there are not many viruses that attack linux, and the viruses that are out there ready to fuck windows pcs will do no harm to linux.

Mac holds a very small percentage of the PCs in the world, and no one has to fear about it getting hacked as long as it doesnt become popular and take a bigger market share. Though about 80% of the servers are on Linux, there is nothing there for the virus writers to write about in there, as everything there would be web based programs, and what ever you do there would be called malware, and I have had a good number of malware attacks on the files that I have hosted on my linux servers as well as have had a 1 very big hacking incedint too on my linux servers.

The only good thing is that Linux and Mac are stable, and they dont get bugged easily or crash as often as windows. Open source people are just being noisy, and as long as the windows PC is not infected, and has got 2 or 3 virus scanners active at all times, you are safe. The only problem is that the speed of the system will go down by about 80%. So what? You still have got about 20%, get one more processor if required, and you can boast that you are running Windwos on a dual processor system.