I suspect that's because the majority of consumer machines are Microsoft. Certainly Linux has less malware problems. If I were to write my own OS today, I could claim it was 100% malware free. Linus fall somewhere between those extremes. I'm not discounting the fact that unix is better written than windows, just that it's obviously not anywhere near as targeted as windows. Not even close.
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