macOS has quite a few built-in antivirus features: https://support.apple.com/guide/security/app-security-overview-sec35dd877d0/1/web/1 https://support.apple.co

macOS has quite a few built-in antivirus features: https://support.apple.com/guide/security/app-security-overview-sec35dd877d0/1/web/1 https://support.apple.com/guide/security/app-security-overvi... IMO, you have to pick a security vendor to trust (only as far as you can throw them). Apple is incentivized to provide better end-user experiences as a matter of having end to end authority for their products. They’ve built a robust (albeit prescriptive) security/sandboxing ecosystem to avoid just pointing at software vendors if a customer is unhappy. I like these features, but the fact that they’re not always optional is frustrating. Note also that soon macOS will be running on Apple ARM SoCs; similar trade off. Buy any other computer, and you now have Microsoft or Google, a CPU vendor, a consumer hardware vendor, and possibly also an antivirus company installing background services.