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You seem to assume that AV is a effective cure for people installing random software on the internet, but I have never seen proof that this is the case. Worse,
by soraminazuki 8y ago
You seem to assume that AV is a effective cure for people installing random software on the internet, but I have never seen proof that this is the case. Worse, there are many instances of poorly written AVs negatively impacting the security and performance of the system it’s supposed to protect.
- jeroenhd 8y agoIt's true AV software won't fix behaviour. However, plenty of software gets exploited. There was a news item a few years back when pirated versions of Xcode inserted malware into some iOS apps; several big software projects have had their servers hacked, serving malware through official download links. AV won't fix users wanting to launch pirated games or software from sketchy sources for example. However, it can fix malware placed on a system after an exploit. I have more faith into Microsoft and their Defender suite than any commercial AV vendor or Apple itself. Right now, people are using Sophos or McAfee or Bitdefender on corporate Apple devices; none of those have a good reputation with me. I'd strongly prefer Microsoft's AV solution over any existing macOS security suite. As for performance, any AV will cause some performance drops if you enable live scanning or during periodic scans. Having a macbook scan overnight does not cause an issue, having live scanning running during compilation will slaughter performance. The performance impact is up to how the AV is configured.