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I remembered when OSX didn't barely had any viruses and malware. Then their user base went up and more malware started to appear.
I'm starting to think virus and malware creators only want to focus on making things that will actually be used. Linux being not one of them.
The magical time where OSX "barely had any viruses and malware" never existed.
Source: Was instructor in a Mac lab for 2 years.
I see. I always thought it was significantly less than PC. Thanks for the info.
While it is true that they were generally less prone to malware, that was not due to inherent security features/improvements over Windows, and was instead mostly function of the relative obscurity of the platform. Can't get a virus from a downloaded game, because nobody ~~makes~~ made games for that platform.
In every lab with students, all machines were regularly b0rked and when I say regularly, I mean monthly. Complete re-imaging of 200 machines every weekend ended up becoming the norm because the techs couldn't deal with the endless destruction.
It was really a matter of the platform having very little saturation in the market, and therefore less malware existed for it. However when in an environment with mostly Macs it was a shit show.