To second many points above, this list seems poorly written, ill researched and generally put together to create fear to sell software.

You can't just say things are dangerous because idiots use them! You could say a Ferrari is the worlds most dangerous car because it can go so fast. But in the right hands it's a whole lot less dangerous than a Vauxhall Nova driven by a drunk boy racer. And there's a lot less chance for the boy racer to get his hands on the Ferrari.

Better research and stats to back up the list in future might make it worth reading.

Anything is dangerous in the wrong hands. When I first got a computer in 98 I could be had for any price. Now I know I can get anything I want without the hassles, viruses, trojans and everything else I used to go through just to get something I wanted online. Knowing where to look and not look, paying attention to the warning given off by my browser and my anti virus. I had back then ignored warnings at times and paid the price.

I've been thinking lately that maybe teaching new users how to get to the things they want in a safe way would be a good idea. These things aren't always legal like stolen content or all that good, porn. As it is they go through the same cycle I did and infect themselves and others in the process until they learn where to get what they are after without getting something they aren't after.

The biggest name anti virus software isn't the best for many users. They are well known and hackers have learned to beat them. They are made for complete idiots to use, they don't take into account the fact that some idiots are incomplete, have many missing parts like I used to.

Facebook I won't go into except to say its all about becoming famous for absolutely nothing and people will never stop wanting that.

Hum. Not sure you remember how risk is evaluated.

Risk = impact x probability.

Probabilities is usually linked to the popularity of a platform more than to the number of vulnerabilities of that platform. Have 1 "zero-day vulnerability" on Windows/IE and it will be used immediately by exploits. Have 10 on Mac OS, no exploit will appear.
So applying the formula fairly will certainly rate Microsoft Windows higher than Apple’s Mac OS X in terms of risky platform.

Secondly, have you ever tried to diagnose a malware infected Mac? For everyone who thinks there isn't any, wake up. I have now cleaned 2 Macs after being ridden with viruses. I have also had to format 1 of these same macs because a hacker had compromised the system, and was attempting to pull cookie data from safari. Macs users without antivirus software can also send virus ridden messages to windows machines unwittingly. (Admittingly not as common now as it used to be.)

In any case, it's time that Apple started paying attention and patching their systems on a more regular basis, and for users to get off the holier-than-thou mentality. I'm not saying there's not 14million more viruses for windows, but the Mac has never been a super-secure system. It's simply been to small to bother targeting. As that changes, we'll continue to see more attacks and compromises of Apple systems. So TreX…

"Get the facts!!"

Let's stop spam by blocking SMTP on our networks too, while we're at it.

Serious business.

However your blog is using wordpress as well… Is that is failed action ?

This is nothing but poorly filtered data not taking into account the user levels and popularity of the systems being used.

I'm really surprised that you've fallen foul of one of the most basic aspects of mining and filtering statistical data.
Google might be the most dangerous search engine, simply because it has such a large share of the market.
It's like suggesting driving is more dangerous than parachuting simply because more people do it!

Shame on you for being so ridiculous.

The worst malware is called Microsoft, and includes Windows, Internet Explorer, Outlook, etc.

Windows has almost 85,000 viruses reported and growing each day.

Mac has virtually no viruses, besides the concept ones, which do not exist in the wild.

It is typical for a Windows user to have to reformat the hard disk every year or so to get rid of malware. And that is a real pain, since it means re-installing every application from scratch.

Mac users do not have to worry about all that. It just works!

Get the facts!