My dad and brothers went to a computer store. The computer guy there said since there are so few mac users in the world and Mac runs on a different operation system so viruses for PC does not effect them.
I know people with Mac's and they use it for really important stuff.
Is it ture there are no viruses for Mac's?security
It's...almost-kinda true. There are technically viruses for Mac OS X, but you could quite literally count them on one hand and have fingers left over, and they also don't do anything because they're all proof-of-concept viruses that couldn't even spread to more than (I think) 50 or so computers before dying out. There is indeed a security advantage to having a small market share, but OS X is inherently better constructed than Windows (which isn't saying much, but still), and based on UNIX which works differently in terms of security. A program would not be able to screw anything up on your Mac without you actually giving it permission to do so and typing in your password, which pretty much makes it pointless to make Mac malware. The security-through-obscurity argument doesn't even hold up, as there should be hundreds upon hundreds of Mac viruses now (compared to Windows' hundreds of thousands) considering how their market share has recently grown.
So the answer is that there are no *working* viruses for Macs, and a paltry few that don't work.
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