Explosion? From this article it looks it's a single piece of malware that people are having trouble with. Hardly an explosion.
Just as Gruber doesn't say nice things about Microsoft and/or Windows, neither do Ed Bott and Mary Jo Foley say nice things about Apple and/or OS X.
Ed Bott's Windows Expertise: http://www.edbott.com/weblog/
Ed Bott's Microsoft Report: http://www.zdnet.com/blog/bott
Mary Jo Foley's All About Microsoft: http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft
You can safely ignore 95% of everything these guys say about what they perceive to be the opposition. They make Gruber's bias look like child's play.
Until last week, Mac malware was as common as unicorns. Now there is one. And, as pointed out, Safari's default behaviour of running stuff it deems safe automatically is very dangerous.
That might be true if "malware" includes only exploits that call attention to themselves and disseminate indiscriminately.
But OS X has many times been the first OS to fall in the pwn2own competition, and since there has long been a market in OS X exploits, clearly some Mac have been being compromised.
- The Mac is often the best Pwn2own gizmo - It gives high cred to whoever pwns it. - Nobody pays as much attention to owning a Windows box - Windows vulnerabilities may get more than the Pwn2own prize on the market.