By Shaun Nichols in California, vnunet.com
Apple's Mac OS X remains almost completely free of any sort of malware threat despite several years of availability, a significant market share, and even an entire month dedicated to pointing out its flaws.
And security experts are not exactly sure why. In an article for the McAfee Avert Labs blog, security researcher Marius van Oers pointed out that Mac malware is 'pretty much non-existent at the moment'.
The researcher said that out of 236,000 known pieces of malicious software, only seven affect Mac OS X.
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