I am at a loss to explain what sort of logic that comes from. You dont need anti-virus for mac, it might do more harm than good.
Reputable websites do get hacked into too.
Don’t think that just because you only visit reputable websites that there is no way you can get hit. Websites are constantly under attacked, many successfully. This can easily happen when a “safe” website is compromised and malware planted in there. These days, you don’t have to purposely visit an unsafe website to get malware. The notion that you get malware only from unsafe websites is outdated. If you constantly surf unsafe website, even anti-virus can’t help you. For example, there will also always be zero-day exploits. But there’s always going to be something else that Apple can’t catch up quickly enough.
#Iantivirus for mac os x update#
Perhaps the Flashback Trojan may teach Apple to not again take two months to push out !n update after a vulnerability has been fixed. But again, drawing from the Flashback Trojan, clearly that isn’t going to be enough. I very much like to believe the above would work. What you need is smart sense in dealing with the Internet and proactiveness in updating your system with the latest patches and fi8es. There’s malware for Linux too, what makes the Mac so different? We’re, in general, talking about malware. Let’s for now not get technical over the differences between viruses, trojans, and various other sorts of malicious software. Some people think that “Unix” changes the ballgame, and that viruses don’t exist in Unix. But clearly viruses have been catching up to the Mac as welln Unless something truly changes fundamentally, no one should seriously believe that the Mac is somehow different from Windowsn No doubt many computer users have associated viruses as being something that you had to deal with on Windows. These are some posts I read about from an online forum, which shall remain unnamed, about anti-virus for the Mac.
#Iantivirus for mac os x Pc#
Apple used to list “It doesn’t get PC viruses” as one of the Mac’s advantage over Windows, and while one could argue about the definition of “PC viruses” and their applicability on the Mac, I think the bottom line is that Apple doesn’t think that tagline works anymore. It’s also because Apple themselves recognized that it’s time for them to stop labeling the Mac as being immune to viruses. It’s not just because the Flashback Trojan was particularly successful. The Flashback Trojan became, in my opinion, the beginning of the end of Macs being safe. They had to release an updated fix on 12th April 2012. Although the vulnerability exploited was actually in Java, which had been fixed by Oracle in February, Apple maintains their own version of Java and they had not fixed theirs until 3rd April 2012. Some 600K infected Macs were found in a botnet. The day I posted about Safe Online Computing, the news on the Flashback Trojan broke. It’s always funny how when you say something, and then very quickly after that you get proven wrong. It’s just that they weren’t particularly prevalent and the threat landscape on the Mac wasn’t particularly worrisome. I’m not saying there were no serious malware for the Mac. The truth is, not too long ago I, too, had not thought the malware situation on the Mac was serious. It’ll probably work much better for me to do my public education in my own blog.
I felt compelled to respond to fellow misguided users, but then I realized it might just degenerate into an ugly disagreement. I have been briefly following a certain forum thread on anti-virus protection for the Mac, and I am honestly quite shocked that there are Mac users who still believe, to this day, that their Macs are safe from malware.
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