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“I am secure”, ohh well “Xyz is secure”, is a common misconception. Anyone remember the old saying “ given enough time and tools, all locks are broken”.
by ramshanker 3y ago
“I am secure”, ohh well “Xyz is secure”, is a common misconception. Anyone remember the old saying “ given enough time and tools, all locks are broken”.
- shzhdbi09gv8ioi 3y agoPeople used to claim MacOS was so secure you didn't need antivirus. Turns out it was not very popular.
- complex_pi 3y agoThe macs I support in my private circle run very well without an antivirus. It is anecdata of course but about 15 years of it for several "lambda" users.
- gjsman-1000 3y agoWell… I mean, if you consider iOS an operating system, “so secure it doesn’t antivirus” is true for 99.9% of people. I have personally never used antivirus on Mac. I’ve scanned once or twice with Malwarebytes when something weird was occurring but there was never anything.
- asylteltine 3y agoIt is true. I don’t know a single person who runs any kind of antivirus on a mac and I’ve never heard of anyone getting a virus. Does it happen? Sure, there are 8 billion people in the world. Let’s not pretend mac needs an antivirus running like windows does.
- pjmlp 3y agoAny Mac on corporate environment where liability is a thing, is quite certainly running some kind of systems scanner.
- fragmede 3y agoMac viruses exist. We can laugh at the cryptocurrency people all we want, but downloading sketchy apps, on MacOS (as well as Windows) has gotten more than a few people's cryptocurrency wallets drained.