I agree with you, but the problem is that these kinds of reports will always be dismissed as somehow being flawed, and people will just fall back to the "don't use Windows and security in the same sentence" type garbage.
What often seems to be ignored is that hackers need only one exploitable vulnerability to unleash an attack. Looking at the vulnerabilities per OS, it is clear that there are many opportunities where there are at least one such vulnerability for each OS.
Yet, Windows keeps getting targeted the most by far. Maybe when people start putting the logic together they will start seeing that this is purely marketshare driven. What would the logic have been for any hacker to target OS X if they could have gotten 30 times the return by targeting Windows? It is not even a linear scale wrt marketshare. It just doesn't make any sense to target anything other than Windows from a practical point of view, and has nothing to do with available vulnerabilities or difficulty of exploiting it (well, I have a feeling that most hackers have PCs, not Macs).
All adds up to the end result that Mac and Linux's super low marketshare is protecting them artificially from being viable targets, and their users keep patting themselves on the back because of that reason.
It's not Teh Secure, it's Teh Low Marketshare, stupid.
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