Anti- Virus Recommendations

I am new to Macs and was wondering if it is worth the $$ to purchase Anti-virus software and which one. I have not been very happy with Norton or McAfee on my PCs so any other suggestions?

You don't need anti-virus software on a Mac. Or adware/spyware removers.

There are no viruses, no trojans, and no spyware infections.

I'm dead serious.

Welcome to the world of Macintosh

yep...nothing to worry about in our world in regards to virus's and spyware

for a little peace of mind if you want you can turn on your firewall in system preferences

you only need virus protection if youre networked with pcs.

Macman said:

you only need virus protection if youre networked with pcs.

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Just to clarify:

You don't need virus protection to protect your mac from the pc's on your network - the mac can't be harmed by common windows viruses.

But if you are on a network with other PC's, you might unknowingly pick up pc viruses that you might transfer to other pc's.

EXAMPLE:

Let's say you get a funny mail that is actually a virus. It doesn't do anything to your mac as it can't. But you send it to all your friends, accidently infecting their PC's.

That's the only reason to even consider buying anti-virus software for mac...

As a programmer, I should make a macintosh Antivirus that does nothing. I could have it update and do nothing but increment the version number.

Nobody patent my idea!

spend the $$ on software instead

Thanks! I am so glad I bought my MAC. Now if they only make a vesion of Teamspeak for the Mac I could get rid of my PC.

what does teamspeak do? Im sure theres a similiar app on mac, probably better then teamspeak.