Is it worth having virus protection on a mac?

6 thoughts on “Is it worth having virus protection on a mac?”

1. Mr.Quix says:

   September 7, 2009 at 5:37 am

   No and avoid Norton on the Mac.

2. Ru says:

   September 7, 2009 at 5:37 am

   If it’s valuable to you, it’s worth it.
   Best: Most malware, viruses, trojans are written for PCs, few for Macs.
   Good: some security software is good for mulitiple computers. see what your other computers have now.
   Bad: If your computer gets infected, you could lose a lot of data, pics, etc..
   Ugly: No computer is immuned to cyber threats.

3. Shane says:

   September 7, 2009 at 5:37 am

   Currently, no. But the myth that Apple has produced about Macs being virus resistant is a load of bull$#@!. As Apple gains market share watch as the number of security issues with Macs rise.

4. balplaya4404 says:

   September 7, 2009 at 5:37 am

   That’s because they’re dumb. Of course you need virus protection. Even though 90% of viruses are created to infect windows pcs there are viruses for macs. Anyway, I use ClamXav which is a great program and it’s free.

   http://www.clamxav.com/index.php?page=dl

5. Nillan S says:

   September 7, 2009 at 5:37 am

   Ahahahaha good one. Unless you are REALLY REALLY paranoid, I wouldn’t suggest renewing it.

6. Kahless says:

   September 7, 2009 at 5:37 am

   At the present time it is not worth renewing. It slows your Mac down. There hasn’t been a released MacOs X virus since 2006. The current handful of Mac trojans require you to download them & install them with your admin password. They are in fake software (poker game, malware remover, antivirus, HD viewer & porn viewer), they are also attached to illegal torrents of iWorks 09 and Photoshop CS4. There are over 1,000,000 Windows viruses which do not affect your Mac. iAntivirus is free and just checks for the 7 Mac trojans so it works very quickly. ClamXav is free and also checks for all the Windows viruses and that can take awhile. You cannot catch anything on a Mac by visiting a website, clicking on an ad or opening an email, like you can on a Windows computer. So you are relatively safe. The doom & gloom Windows users who keep warning "Watch Out!" for those Mac viruses having been doing that for 5 years, ignore them.

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