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Your Smartphone Is Safer Than Your PC — For Now
snydeq writes "InfoWorld's Galen Gruman reports on the future of mobile security — one that will see a significant rise in exploits as valuable information increasingly migrates to mobile devices. To date, sandboxing and code-signing have helped make mobile OSes relatively secure, when compared with their desktop brethren. But as devices store more valuable information than email, they will become more enticing to hackers currently breaking into Windows PCs. And the biggest bulls-eye appears to be on Android, in large part because its architecture is most like that of the desktop PC but also because there are so many variants in use — too many for Google or the carriers to patch securely. And as the PDF-jailbreak vulnerability showed, sandboxing has its limits when it comes to securing the browser — the most likely point of entry for exploits not due to the rise of extensions, helper objects, and plug-ins on the mobile Web."
it [Windows] is more secure than any other operating system
Um...
Prime example, in 2006 Mac OS X had 3 known viruses written for it
Wrong. There are *no* viruses for Mac OS X. There are a handful of trojans, none of which are even remotely wide-spread (even adjusting for OS X's relative install base) and all of which require the user to enter in their admin password (a huge governor which helps limit the rate at which malware can spread).
Snow Leopard has antivirus embedded in the OS
Wrong. Snow Leopard checks for a handful of trojans/malware. There are no viruses for Mac OS X. Embedding anti-virus would be pointless, unless you just want to be nice and scan for Windows viruses.