I've had my iMac desktop for about two weeks and love it. I've heard that an anti-virus program is not necessary. I'm not running any windows programs on my mac. I have downloaded Lion to my system. If an anti-virus program is necessary which one is the best? Any help would be appreciated.
Do I need an anti-virus program
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Well most experienced Mac power users do no use antivirus at all. However if you are paranoid about this coming from a Windows background, try the free ClamXAV2 by all means and suggest not spending your hard earned on Nortons etc.
http://www.clamxav.com/
Should you ever decide to run Windows via BootCampo etc., make sure you have AV installed on that partition, and the best freeware seems to be Microsoft Security Essentials.
http://www.clamxav.com/
Should you ever decide to run Windows via BootCampo etc., make sure you have AV installed on that partition, and the best freeware seems to be Microsoft Security Essentials.
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