Apple has a few extremely good security engineers (two of which were stolen from FreeBSD and whom I know personally). I've never believed OS X is bullet-proof, but it sure beats anything else I'd recommend to my 60+ year old mom. She's had more security problems with her garage than with her computer.
"This is almost certainly the year of the OS X exploit" (Feb 2006) http://www.securityfocus.com/news/113758
iPhone to be target of hackers (December 2007) http://www.networkworld.com/news/2007/121107-report-iphone-t...
Apple has a few extremely good security engineers (two of which were stolen from FreeBSD and whom I know personally). I've never believed OS X is bullet-proof, but it sure beats anything else I'd recommend to my 60+ year old mom. She's had more security problems with her garage than with her computer.