The reason for very little viruses on MACs

As far as I know, there are very few viruses that are spread through the internet that cause harm to a mac. I'm going to purchase an macbook within a couple months and was just curious what it has in terms of virus protection, if any. Are there just not many viruses made to attack OSX or does the OS have that high quality of virus protection? Any other details would be appreciated. Thanks

I disagree with that assessment.
Consider hackers who write viruses to be thieves. A thief is not going to try stealing $1000 from a bank safe deposit box if he/she knows there is $1000 in a padlocked gym locker.
It is very difficult to do anything valuable with a Mac OS X exploit, even when a vulnerability is discovered. You can't take over the overall system and turn the Mac into the hacker's robot. You can't create malware that self-replicates to other Macs. You can't modify the system without Mac OS X requesting admin user authentication. You can't even trick the user into running a trojan without Mac OS X flashing up a warning about running program "abc," which was downloaded from the Internet, for the first time. It's just not worth the effort...
Windows is the low-hanging fruit; that's why it's the target of hackers. It's not because of market share, so the threat of Mac OS X viruses will not suddenly increase because Mac OS X market share is increasing.

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lightroom: https://helpx.adobe.com/lightroom/help/setting-preferences-lightroom.html
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