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Originally Posted by Prestidigitweeze
Apple users have often asserted their platform is safe, but malware and viruses still exist, and in the days before OSX (c-r-e-a-k!), you couldn't print out a word document from a floppy disc at Kinko's without bringing home a virtual venereal disease.
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There are vastly fewer viruses and malware for OS X, in part because it is a more secure operating system. Most of the malware requires you to type in your administrator password to install. Thus, the programs need to trick the user into doing that. That's not impossible (the Adobe Flash updater trick) but not easy, either. And the few holes that have been really bad have been the fault of third-parties like Adobe's Flash or Sun's Java. Those technologies have provided a back door around Apple's security, and it's no secret that Apple doesn't like that one bit.
However, history has shown that browsers are particularly troublesome to keep secure and clean, and there's no reason to think that an OS based on a browser will be more secure and clean than previous browsers have been. So I would find any claims that ChromeOS is secure simply because it contains no code from Microsoft (see paragraph above for two other companies whose code would need to be excluded in any security-conscious effort) to be extremely doubtful.