Security...

I was thinking about now that the first publicly publicised worm Leap/A has hit the Mac, can we trust in the security of MacOSX? I mean, there are most likely many vulnerabilities in the MacOSX.

I know that MacOSX is based on BSD and the motto of some BSD's are security by default, but how good is the security within BSD now when it has been adapted towards a more userfriendly enviroment.

I myself switched from Gentoo Linux 2005.1 when I bought a Mac Mini. My reasons were

1. Silence.
2. Security, an opinion now somewhat a bit shattered.
3. No spyware (yet, well none that I know of).
4. No antivirus software needed to bog down the system (yet).
5. Deskspace.
   

Questions that remain for me now are:

1. How well can and will Apple respond to more security threats and bugs?
2. How fast will Apple patch those potential security threats identified?

My trust in the MacOSX have now been somewhat shattered, and I sincerely hope that Apple can assure us users that are concerend about possible security threats, that Apple will respond faster than MS and hopefully faster than Linux based distributions regarding updates and patches.