I don’t think it’s particularly widely used but in my opinion using antivirus software is a matter of good hygiene, even if the system you run isn’t prone to be

I don’t think it’s particularly widely used but in my opinion using antivirus software is a matter of good hygiene, even if the system you run isn’t prone to being infected by viruses. For example, I occasionally receive Office documents or ZIP archives from clients. If those should contain viruses these likely won’t affect my Mac but I can inform my client about this, help him fix his security issues and prevent viruses from spreading even further.