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Ask HN: Do you use an antivirus on your mac dev machine?
I've not been using one for ages and have had no visible problems. Of course, I don't know about the problems I can't see. So I thought it right to ask you all, since many of you use macbookpros as your dev machine, going by what I read.
- geuis 16y agoNope. I even disabled the one at work that was installed by IT. Slow as fuck.
- prateekdayal 16y agoNope .. is it really needed?
- mahmud 16y agoFirst thing I do with a new machine is remove anti-virus crap.
- deleted 16y ago[deleted]
- WozRocks 16y agoThe most amazing symptom of the surge in popularity of macs is all these windows people showing up thinking they should be running anti-virus software! You don't need it, and you can now relax. Just have software update set to run and install all the security updates it suggests, and you're good.
- fnl 16y agonope - I want to work on my machine - same reason why I don't know how to use Windows :)
- alanthonyc 16y agoI got one as part of a discount bundle of software that I bought once (MacHeist or something like that). I've used it twice, just out of curiosity. The first time, it found some malicious cookies. The second time, nothing. That's over two years on the same machine.
- aufreak3 16y agoso far, promising :)