No one is really focusing attacks on Mac and Linux, namely because there're not enough users," Steckler said in an interview. "Viruses, just like [those] in humans, need lots of hosts to propagate. Since there are very few Mac and Linux machines in the ecosystem, it's very difficult to propagate [and] to target."
The Mac platform seemingly appears more secure because only a few hackers write attacks against the OS, and not because it is inherently safer, he added.

"If you're a hacker and you want to infect a Web site, if you can get 93 out of 100 computers by writing an attack focused on Windows versus seven [or fewer] out of 100 visitors

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