According to Wired News reporter, Leander Kahney, the couple of viruses exposed in recent days reported to be harmful to the Macintosh platform have been a bit over-hyped due to the novelty of the Apple operating system and its history of not having to deal with security holes.

How much of what Kahney says is true, I’m not positive. I do know that I still feel more secure on a Mac than a Windows PC. And I’m sure that as Mac continues to become more popular, the hackers will be targeting the Apple platform for more notoriety.

I think recent reports have raised some serious concerns over the prospects of applications like the open source browser Firefox and other web tools, about virus and sercurity hole infiltration. Certainly nothing is perfect in a technology-infested world, but if one were a betting man, my money is still on the Macintosh.