Bill Westerman wrote this article last year, but it seems to be pretty up-to-date.
He gives 10 points about malware on the Mac.
01 Nothing is completely virus-proof
02 The Mac has had viruses in a past life
03 At the moment, your Mac is safe
04 There is some proof-of-concept malware out there in the world
05 There are definitely bugs in the Mac OS
06 Having Unix underneath is helpful
07 Having Intel underneath is largely irrelevant
08 Marketshare is irrelevant (points out that you would get more notoriaty for writing the first virus for the Mac.)
09 There’s big money in malware
10 Mac anti-virus companies?
In the last, he points out that “you’re spending hard-earned money on software to protect yourself against, effectively, nothing. However, on the other hand, you get two benefits: (a) you can avoid passing Windows viruses from one hapless Windows user to the next, and (b) when the killer Mac virus does appear, you’ll have the engine in place to quickly stop it in its tracks, assuming your virus definitions are up to date and they’ve released a fix.”
Get the full article here.
