That’s the multiple times debunked Security by obscurity canard. He’s wrong.
There has been computer worms written for fewer than 18,000 vulnerable computers. The Witty Worm in 2007 was just such a virus that targeted the 18,000 unpatched Black Ice firewall software left six months after the company parched a vulnerability in the vast majority of the Windows computers that used it. The vulnerable computers were spread all over the world, yet less than 35 minutes after the Witty Worm was released into the wild every single one was infected. Someone wrote a virus to infect the 75 known iPods that had had Linux installed on them.
A 2000 member PC BOT sending out spam for just two weeks has a current value to its controller of over $80,000. . . and that’s the average life span of such a bot before it gets discovered and shut down. $80 Grand for two weeks.
There are 150 MILLION Apple Macintosh computers in the world, wmileo, 99% of them are running bare naked of any third-party anti-virus protection, owned by people who have more money than the average PC user. . . can you say "sitting ducks?" Each of them are as close to those hackers as the computers that fell to the Witty Worm and far less well protected if your counting 3rd party AVware. Recall the $80 Grand a two-week bot is worth? The ONLY reported bots on Macs turned out to be hoaxes perpetrated by a Russian antivirus publisher, Dr.Web, trying to sell its Mac Antivirus for Business package and then later the Mac Antivirus Personal.
Their first hoax claimed a 600,000 member Macbot, but the hoax fell apart when no one could find any members of the so-called Macbot in the wild, even ones Dr.Web’s "Honeypot" Server reported as infected turned out were not, and some supposed "infected" Macs had not even been made yet! The same thing happened with their next 20,000 member hoax, and their claims were roundly laughed out of the news.
There have been SEVEN true computer virus candidates for OSX and the newer MacOS in 20 years. ALL have failed in their attempts at self-prpagation, self-installation, and self-transmission, the three criteria for them to be a true computer virus. The ALL FAILED!
There are approximately 145 known Trojans in eight distinct categories or families. . . and OSX and MacOS built in antimalware will recognize and warn the user if he or she attempts to download/ install or run any of them or any variation of those known Trojans. To continue requires the user to enter an administrator’s name and password at each warning. A user has to be industrial strength stupid to get a Mac infected with a known Trojan.
It’s not just clicking an OK button.
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