>It's the 80:20 rule. If you have to spend the >same amount of effort
>>crafting a Windows exploit as a Mac >exploit you'd be stupid to write a
>Mac exploit. When someone, in the context >of malware, says the Mac
>isn't "mainstream" they aren't dissing the >Mac platform, they're
>observing the realities of the installed base. I believe u are pointing to
>the fact if the malware is betwork based, if there is less than 50% chance of
>communicating to a similiar OS based host ( this assumes that the exploit used
>is OS specific) the spread would die out, quite fast. And if it has more than
>half probability u could have epidomolgical spread (e.g. Case of windows)
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