As of this date, I know of no viruses that affect Mac OS X, in any form, and only one possible remote web related exploit (now patched) that exist in the wild. There have been a few 'lab level' vulnerabilites demonstrated and subsequently patched.

I believe that there are differences in the OS X and Windows which make, and will continue to make, OS X more secure until Microsoft does a ground up rebuild of their operating systems - for example the root level vulnerability in Windows which allows apps high level access to the OS w/o user approval.

Also, to gripe at Apple for not providing security fixes immediately for 10.2 once 10.3 was released with them is a bit much. They actually shipped product on time (or within a sigma) with the promised features and a smaller pool of programmers - then got to work on patching the previous release... What's the current ship date for XP Service Pack 2?

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