It’s official. Panther is the most secure OS on the planet. A study by the mi2g Intelligence Unit, a London-based security firm, reveals that the world’s safest and most secure online server Operating System (OS) is proving to be the Open Source family of BSD (Berkley Software Distribution) and the Mac OS X based on Darwin.

In it’s three year rise to fame, the Mac OS X hasn’t been recorded as ever being infected with a virus.

The main reasons for this are down to the built-in security features. Nothing can install itself: No programme, utility or even an update from Apple, without Admin privileges.

By default, each installation of OS X has almost no internet based servers turned on and almost all ports are shut down, meaning that no requests are heard by the OS.

Multiple user accounts can be configured far more securely than a Windows OS and access to each and every application can be prevented on a user by user basis.