I can guarantee that as mac ownership goes up, the number of viruses with more serious consequences will go up on macs. The problem is, no one writing viruses/malware etc uses macs, so they don't write them for macs. As children are raised on them and learn the ins and outs, it will become more prevalent.
Well, again, kinda sorta true. First of all, there's plenty of know vulnerabilities in OS X, it's just that they aren't really that easy to exploit.
What's more important is the underlying guts of the OS X platform, which is, of course, a BSD-based kernel and it is, ultimately, Unix. That's an OLD and MATURE OS and a lot of the attacks and issues faced are well known and well patched.
The biggest security vulnerability for ANY computer is the peripheral that's located smack in between the screen and the chair.
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