Spyware

"the absolute falsehood of 'security through obscurity', I will snap like a twig."

Well virii, bots, hackers and things definately make "security through obscurity" pretty worthless. But you said spyware :)

Spyware and adware are market, business driven - they're made by advertising companies, and are usually even installed by the user - usually after the user agrees to it in a license! They rarely even really take advantage of security holes and bugs so patching and updating doesn't really effect spyware and adware.

In fact, it's actually really easy to deploy spyware and adware to Linux and - though I haven't looked into it specifically - probaby Mac. You just need stupid users to install "free programs!!!!!!".

It just wouldn't make any $$$ though so to a spyware, adware company it's quite worthless. Hence no spyware on Linux or Mac even though it is soooooooo easy.

As for virii - which mind you is an entirely different matter - I'm actually quite shocked that Macintosh and Linux and the like don't have more. Everyone going around bragging about the unbreakability is essentially begging for attacks, it's like a challenge. All we get though are "proof of concept" lab developed benign trojans that hardly even qualify as malicious.

So feel free to be proud of Unix security, just don't throw around spyware as an example. The #1 security hole that lets spyware in lies between the chair and keyboard.