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While the data for the entire year has not been fully analyzed, the trend seems likely to continue, says Thomas Reed, director of Mac and mobile for Malwarebytes. On Windows, we have all sorts of exploits that happen it is a much more common thing on the Windows side to, say, visit a website and suddenly your machine is infected, he says. That really does not happen on the Mac OS.
Apple has typically benefited from its minority marketshare among desktop and laptop systems as well as a more tightly controlled ecosystem. Binaries typically must come from either the Apple App Store or a recognized developer, for example, to avoid requiring the user to specifically allow the program to install, a feature more restrictive than the AppLocker policy on Microsoft Windows.