(10-28-2013, 02:47 PM)EvilDevil59NL Wrote: ^ Indeed yes. One thing to note though, is that Hackers focus on the majority of users on one platform. You can scream as long as you want "Use Linux! Buy a Mac cause no viruses!", the colt hard truth is that if the majority of end-users were using linux, there would be waay more risk into using Debian or Centos than using Windows 7 / 8. You can see this beautifully developing in the smartphone world. More and more so called "Viruses" are being used on android devices nowadays, and you know why? Because half of the damm population on earth uses a smartphone, meaning that this is a very interesting group of potential victims for hackers.
That's the half truth. The Unix/linux/etc (*nix) architecture is extremely secure, by design (compared to Windows). And after all, potentially dangerous vulnerabilities get patched by the open source community (~1500 active linux developers) in lightning speed.
(Relevant - http://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerability-...ernel.html)