You know what? I now know why people here and in other Mac communities are against antivirus software on the Mac.
I went to update iAntivirus and when I clicked the smart update button I got a message saying "Invalid update file".
So I decide I'll go to their website and ask on their message board if something is wrong. But guess what? Their message board no longer exists because according to the message displayed on their website now the domain expired yesterday!
I can say before the website expired and when I was able to get updates that anytime I scanned for something with iAntivirus it detected nothing. I can say that everyone saying antivirus software on the Mac is more trouble than it's worth is right. I can definitely say the people at PCTools are a bunch of morons for being a professional company and letting their domain expire. But what I can't say is whether or not there is a security risk for my Mac now because of this.
I say this because the domain is no longer in their hands, because iAntivirus is able to install updates since I gave it my administrator password, and what is to keep someone from buying the domain and putting malware where iAntivirus would download the update from?
I went to update iAntivirus and when I clicked the smart update button I got a message saying "Invalid update file".
So I decide I'll go to their website and ask on their message board if something is wrong. But guess what? Their message board no longer exists because according to the message displayed on their website now the domain expired yesterday!
I can say before the website expired and when I was able to get updates that anytime I scanned for something with iAntivirus it detected nothing. I can say that everyone saying antivirus software on the Mac is more trouble than it's worth is right. I can definitely say the people at PCTools are a bunch of morons for being a professional company and letting their domain expire. But what I can't say is whether or not there is a security risk for my Mac now because of this.
I say this because the domain is no longer in their hands, because iAntivirus is able to install updates since I gave it my administrator password, and what is to keep someone from buying the domain and putting malware where iAntivirus would download the update from?