Niche products don't help (was: Anti-malware tips) (Score 2, Insightful)

Since the market share for a non-Microsoft OS is so small, it isn't worth the malware author's time to attack them. A successful attack (if possible) would yeild little or no damage in a collective sense.

You could also use a non-Microsoft, niche product like the ISS personal firewall to help protect yourself if you must use Windows.

And then you can get nailed with something like Witty.

There were only about 12,000 Black Ice systems out there. There are over 10 million OS X systems deployed in the world, and no telling how many others (Linux, *BSD, etc.). Each is probably a big enough "niche" to get attention when the opportunity arises (which will happen sooner or later).

There is really no longer anywhere safe to hide.

/jonathan