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People used to claim MacOS was so secure you didn't need antivirus. Turns out it was not very popular.
by shzhdbi09gv8ioi 3y ago
People 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.