Should Mac Users Run Antivirus Software?

http://db.tidbits.com/article/9511

This article is for all Mac users... Although I have always been a Windows user, I always understood some of the underlying reasons why viruses aren't as widespread on Apple related OS than on Microsoft based OSes.

The article states that there is not enough incentives, profit-wise, for virus writers to willingly infect Mac computers. The article states only about a few hundred viruses exist in the Mac OS environment while hundreds of thousands plague computers with Windows on them.

But I think there's an even more simpler reason, the are relatively very few Mac users to the massive Windows users. With more users means there will be more people who have the talent, the time, the incentive, the curiosity, or even the desire to spread infectious or malicious content. After all most security-based software wouldn't be so widely adopted if the user base for any one operating system environment (an operating system environment is an environment that distinguishes one operating system series from another like Linux, UNIX, Windows, X Windows, Mac OS, etc.).

But standardization, user friendliness, and mass appeal is well within the comfort zone of the average consumer, so there will always be a few operating systems that will be loaded with viruses and exploitations and then the not as widely used ones relatively "safer" than these popular operating systems.