"especially considering that a lot of malware today actually relies on social engineering rather than 0days"
That doesn't mean "most".
My response was simply that this isn't 100%, that many malware variants still use exploits to get onto systems, and that your statements based around that are also incorrect.
I'm saying that if Windows disappeared tomorrow, malware--the pieces that exploit software or social-engineer users--wouldn't go away by any stretch of the imagination. Malware distribution would immediately and significantly increase on the now most attractive platforms.
There is nothing about the architecture of the other operating systems that make them any more resistant to malware than Windows--in fact, Windows' UAC is superior to the equivalents on both OS X and Linux.
Take something like the Chromebook or iPhone, and we'll talk.
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That doesn't mean "most".
I'm saying that if Windows disappeared tomorrow, malware--the pieces that exploit software or social-engineer users--wouldn't go away by any stretch of the imagination. Malware distribution would immediately and significantly increase on the now most attractive platforms.
There is nothing about the architecture of the other operating systems that make them any more resistant to malware than Windows--in fact, Windows' UAC is superior to the equivalents on both OS X and Linux.
Take something like the Chromebook or iPhone, and we'll talk.