> That’s not true, but it is quite rare because of the immense number and quality of security measures that are baked into modern Mac devices. Mac has builtin

> That’s not true, but it is quite rare because of the immense number and quality of security measures that are baked into modern Mac devices. Mac has builtin antivirus software similar to "Windows Defender" but it's hidden to spread the myth that the Mac has something fundamentally different about its design to make it impossible to create viruses and malware. It's called XProtect: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/08/apple-quietly-revamps-malware-scanning-features-in-newer-macos-versions/ https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/08/apple-quietly-revamp... And there are a bunch of other services running. From the arstechnica piece > ... Apple has added multiple anti-malware features to macOS, though they're not always branded that way. Gatekeeper, app notarization, System Integrity Protection, the Signed System Volume, and access controls for hardware and software are all, one way or another, about proactively protecting system files from being tampered with and making sure that installed apps do what they say they're doing. Another under-the-hood tool, the Malware Removal Tool (MRT), behaved more like a traditional anti-malware scanner, periodically receiving definitions updates from Apple so that it could scan for and remove malware already present on your system. This is no different from Windows Defender