> What's funny ... it turns out that Apple is actually a decade behind. This is completely false. A year before Microsoft released Defender in 2006, Apple had

> What's funny ... it turns out that Apple is actually a decade behind. This is completely false. A year before Microsoft released Defender in 2006, Apple had already packaged AV scanning in Mac OS X Tiger Server[1] in 2005. ClamAV[2] is OSS, and easily installed on the client OS, and many did so and had been since its first release in 2002. The thing was, practically, there were no viruses on Mac OS X. The only reason Apple included ClamAV on the server was for scanning mail, because Mac OS X Server's mail server obviously also served Windows mail clients. IOW, Apple was fixing Microsoft's broken crap before Microsoft's own attempt to fix their broken crap.[3] The very first Mac OS X virus appeared in 2006, called Leap-A. That was one in 2006, when Microsoft Windows already had tens of thousands in the wild. Following Leap-A were a few proofs of concept, and it seemed like every year, there would be one new virus, worm or Trojan horse identified on Mac. But infection was exceedingly rare, compared to Windows that would ensure a new installation to be infected within 10 minutes of being connected to the Internet. By the mid-2010s there were dozens of identified malware on Mac, but infection was still a very rare exception. Meanwhile, Windows had hundreds of thousands of malware by then, and it was nearly impossible to prevent infection even with vigilant virus scanning; malware got through ordinarily. To this day, malware on macOS is pretty much a nonissue, and AV on Mac is only there primarily to prevent Windows machines on the same local network from being infected via Mac proxy. There has never been a widespread malware infection on Mac since Apple modernized their OS to BSD. Similarly, you never hear about malware on NetBSD, FreeBSD, or OpenBSD. There is good reason: unlike Windows, BSD is not fundamentally insecure. Malware developers go after the low hanging fruit, which is always pretty much only Microsoft Windows, and malware has plagued Microsoft's NT-based OS since inception. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacOS_Server#Mac_OS_X_Server_10.4_(Tiger) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacOS_Server#Mac_OS_X_Server_1... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clam_AntiVirus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clam_AntiVirus [3] Had Microsoft Windows not been so dysfunctional, with Microsoft prone to actively breaking useful functionality in enterprise, Linux would never have become so popular. Linux's first best reason for existing was that Linux devs would quickly restore Windows' functionality within short order of Microsoft's removal of that functionality, within days or weeks. For years it was a cat and mouse game, with Linux's cat quickly catching Microsoft's mouse. This is how Linux got a foothold in the server room, which, as we know, exploded between 2011 and 2013 when Linux finally took over the datacenter.