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<blockquote data-quote="Jaygray" data-source="post: 750224" data-attributes="member: 50033"><p>The firewall is still necessary to prevent unauthorized access to your Mac. </p><p></p><p>The antivirus software is not needed. The viruses you are concerned about are Windows based applications which make harmful changes to the configuration of the Windows OS. Since Windows based applications cannot be run on OS X, there is no need to be protected against them. If you were to intentionally download a virus onto your Mac, you would not be able to open it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jaygray, post: 750224, member: 50033"] The firewall is still necessary to prevent unauthorized access to your Mac. The antivirus software is not needed. The viruses you are concerned about are Windows based applications which make harmful changes to the configuration of the Windows OS. Since Windows based applications cannot be run on OS X, there is no need to be protected against them. If you were to intentionally download a virus onto your Mac, you would not be able to open it. [/QUOTE]
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