Time is coming?

It comes down to the principle of popularity. Today, many viruses are written for commerical reasons (e.g. install spyware without a user downloading freebie muck), to spread a message (hidden text in the viral code - popular virus gets headlines thus message of purpose is often exposed) or just as part of a botnet to do DOS/DDOS attacks.

To do these, you need a lot of computers to run your virus - thus targeted toward Windows.

Yes, there's a huge amount of security holes in Windows, and even more viruses out there to exploit them.

But taking a snapshot of El Reg home page right now shows JavaScript security issues, 25 Mac security holes (my interpretation) and OpenOffice password protection being cracked.

There's also the recent news of security issues in Firefox. (Yes, as well as IE, but the volume of security issues in Firefox whilst being peer reviewed isn't a good thing - thus headlines)

These aren't insecure products, infact I use them on a daily basis (including Linux servers and a couple of Mac clients) - but the trend seems to be that more OSS and non-MS products are coming into the spotlight with their security flaws.

I don't believe this is because people are necessarly finding more security holes in these products (although possible), but probably because people care about them more as their use is more widespread. (With more Mac's being sold, Linux on desktops, OpenOffice on those machines, Firefox also on them along with Windows) As people care about them more as end-users and IT Pro's uptake is higher, then the headlines reflect this.

Seems a little bit like the Windows fanboys who were spouting about "Windows only seems more insecure as nearly everybody uses it" maybe more accurate that first thought.