OS X? - Leo Laporte

Vista and Windows 7, both have UAC, both are secure -- - Bryce Campbell

All of them can be secure, it's more about the user. If you do stupid things then nothing is secure. :) But traditionally OSX has less people trying to break it. - Nick Young

Define "secure" -- do you mean idiot proof, virus proof, or hacker proof? If you mean the first, then maybe OS X gets to play. Windows 7 is definitely more idiot proof than those which have gone before. But when it comes to hackers and viruses and trojans, it seems like a toss up between 7 and Vista -- XP, of course, comes in barely above OSX in that department. - Joel Bennett

None of them is more secure... they all have their vulnerabilities. I feel bad sometimes for the people out there thinking that their OS is either "Hacker Proof" or "Virus Proof " .... No such thing guys unfortunately. To sum this up i will quote Chris Pirillo : " Every operating system sucks " ;) - Konstantinos Ntantoulis

n number of critical updates. Completely meaningless. XP or Vista, I've had to clean up conficker from both OSes recently and that sucked. - Paul Grav

To say anything is idiot proof is crazy. As OSX becomes more prevalent you will see it attacked. Right now it's not worth the effort for virus and spyware developers to bother. I would bet OSX is no more secure than any Windows version. Just no one cares enough to pound too hard on it. - BigMonkGames

The goal has to be to become a more secure *user*, and educate those that you have to support (though understandably that can be hard). When my dad's laptop was "MS Anti-Spyware'd" earlier in the year, I ended up putting Ubuntu on it. At least that way an entire class of viruses were no longer going to be a problem. - G. Sigh

I agree with G. Sigh. The OS and applications will always have issues - too many people with too much time on their hands attacking them. I think we as users need to take more responsibility for being safe in our habits on the Internet. - Sean Higgins

Leo Nailed it in the first comment. - Parth Awasthi

Security is a process... not a feature - Chris Heath

they all have bugs, but OS security doesn't matter anywhere near as much as it used to. what really matters: /passwords/ and a good eye for phishing/trojans. the most damaging attacks are the ones that enable identity theft, and those are enabled by using shitty passwords, or worse, using the same shitty password on many sites. - mjc

What's important is the user level settings. If you run as root in any BSD it's almost as bad as XP, where you need to run as admin to get anything done. OSX is more secure because it buries the root user deep within the OS. If you can operate as a limited user in any OS, it's more secure. - Robert Hafer from iPhone

OS X Leopard has had 23 major security updates in the same period of time, most of them fixing multiple vulnerabilities. Why is it inherently more secure? - Ed Bott

Ed, tiny market share, tiny target - Chris Heath

An OS is only as secure as you make it...or your users make it. - Wizetux