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The story does say Windows is most targeted
Good points, but if you read more of the story, you'll see that it does say to consider switching from Windows. Look at "Six ways to fight back against botnets" at
http://www.networkworld.com/research/2007/070607-botnet-side1.html?
It says, "Another tactic to prevent bot infections is to standardize on a browser other than Internet Explorer or Mozilla Firefox, the two most popular and hence the browsers for which most malware is written. The same tactic works for operating systems. Macs statistically are safe from botnets, as is desktop Linux, because most bot herders target Windows."