If you are running Linux as the primary OS and are using the Internet, you are still open to security-based holes that Unix systems have. |
While it is indeed notable that two examples of malicious threats targeting Macintosh systems appeared last week, I think it would be a mistake to leap to the conclusion that Macs are necessarily going to be the target of larger scale, more damaging threats all of a sudden. |
You have to take the OS-appropriate software security measures in that scenario. |