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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kokopelli" data-source="post: 114803">1) You will be hard pressed to find one that is not biased in one direction or the other.  Avoiding the religious debate of whether one is more secure than the other I will point out 4 things you might investigate:  Spyware, Viruses, default services, and Administrator Privileges.   Properly maintained, I feel that XP is comparable to OS X for security from a practical standpoint.  XP does have more eyes on it though and certain poor decisions in its design from a security standpoint.  Finally let us not forget that OS X has also made mistakes (the Dashboard fiasco as an example). 2) Between 5 and 7 percent.  Highball estimates put it at about 10%.</blockquote>