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Apple: Mac Users Should Get Antivirus Software

hotdoge3

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http://blog.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/

Apple: Mac Users Should Get Antivirus Software In a notable shift, Apple is now recommending that Mac users install anti-virus software to help users secure their systems.
In a technical note quietly published to its support site on Nov. 21, Apple issued the
following advice:
"Apple encourages the widespread use of multiple anti-virus utilities so that virus
programmers have more than one application to circumvent, thus making the whole virus writing process more difficult." * not one but multiple anti-virus scaner's *

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2550

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hotdoge3

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http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-10111958-83.html

"We have removed the KnowledgeBase article because it was old and inaccurate," Apple spokesperson Bill Evans said.

"The Mac is designed with built-in technologies that provide protection against malicious software and security threats right out of the box,There are no known viruses in the wild that exploit a vulnerability in the Mac OS

http://www.heise-online.co.uk/security/Apple-recommend-anti-virus-software-Update-2--/news/112115

Posted 3 years ago #
BuBBy

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"There are no known viruses in the wild that exploit a vulnerability in the Mac OS"

Nothing motivates a hacker more than someone saying "Impossible...It can't be done".

Posted 3 years ago #
Lee

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I am putting my black hat on as we speak.

In life everything is possible.

In 1980 my teacher of my junior school class told me that in the future a computer
would have to be the size of a 50 sky scraper's to work as well as the current systems at home today.

How things change.

Steve Jobs ought to get his staff to quit acting like everyone wants an Apple Mac, coz I don't.

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hotdoge3

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http://db.tidbits.com/article/9511

Safe Computing Should Mac Users Run Antivirus Software?
Hundreds of thousands of viruses and other malicious software programs are floating around for Windows, but less than 200 are known to target the Mac, and many of those are aimed at versions of the Mac OS prior to Mac OS X (and thus have no effect on a modern Mac).

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