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by dantiberian 3700 days ago
There's two separate things that are conflated here:

* Is Windows security equal to or greater than Linux and OS X (Probably yes)

* Are the overwhelming majority of viruses written to target Windows systems (yes)

I really enjoyed this article on security economics which goes into this in more depth: http://tidbits.com/article/15939