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Won't need your wishes, Altair:

"If Apple Mac OS X ever had the security issues that Microsoft Windows has had most Mac users would abandon the platform."

If OSX had anything over 2% of the amount market share that Windows has, than it'd be more of a target for virii writers & hackers. As it stands now, OSX's best security feature is it's relative obscurity. No one wants to bother writing viruses for a system that there is not a viable amount of users for. And if you hadn't noticed, that percentage of marketshare has continued shrinking every year. It's Kind of the same thing as what's happening with actual program writers,Adobe has cancelled HOW MANY products for the Mac platform in the last 2 years due to lack of a viable user base to make it worth it for them?



"Mac OS X 10.3.5 is about as secure an operating systems can be."

Until someone decides it's got enough users to make it worth their while to attempt to mess with. Rest easy, signs indicate that OSX will continue to remain a relative "less than 2% marketshare" curiosity.

P.S. If Windows is, as you say, such a "poor imitation of the original MAC OS", HOW COME Windows has kicked Apple's ass in the marketshare, profitability & sales arenas, so completely, year after year, after year?