Obviously, Windows is the number one OS in the world, thus the number one target by the blackhat community. There are plenty of ways to exploit Linux and other Unix systems, but what is the point? The best OS to corrupt is the one used by the most people. If someone writes a great worm that trashes Entourage on Mac OS X, great. The less than 5 percent of the computing world will be in pain for a bit, but that is not the point of security exploits. People want to cause world wide corruption, so Windows is the obvious target.
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Agreed as well.
Obviously, Windows is the number one OS in the world, thus the number one target by the blackhat community. There are plenty of ways to exploit Linux and other Unix systems, but what is the point? The best OS to corrupt is the one used by the most people. If someone writes a great worm that trashes Entourage on Mac OS X, great. The less than 5 percent of the computing world will be in pain for a bit, but that is not the point of security exploits. People want to cause world wide corruption, so Windows is the obvious target.