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What is a good, safe, and free antivirus for macs?
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<blockquote data-quote="vansmith" data-source="post: 861365" data-attributes="member: 71075"><p>You're probably not going to need one unless you do one of the following: open attachments from people you don't know, use pirated software, click popups and links to places that are sketchy and/or network with Windows machines (not that a Windows machine will give you a virus but Windows viruses can be transmitted through Macs).</p><p></p><p>From what I know, clamxav is more for checking for Windows viruses to make sure that they are not passed on to other Windows users. To quote their <a href="http://www.clamxav.com/" target="_blank">website</a>, "Firstly, there's no guarantee that we Mac users will continue to enjoy the status quo, but more importantly, the majority of the computing world use machines running MS Windows, for which an enormous quantity of viruses exist, so we must be vigilant in checking the files we pass on to our friends and colleagues etc."</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="vansmith, post: 861365, member: 71075"] You're probably not going to need one unless you do one of the following: open attachments from people you don't know, use pirated software, click popups and links to places that are sketchy and/or network with Windows machines (not that a Windows machine will give you a virus but Windows viruses can be transmitted through Macs). From what I know, clamxav is more for checking for Windows viruses to make sure that they are not passed on to other Windows users. To quote their [URL="http://www.clamxav.com/"]website[/URL], "Firstly, there's no guarantee that we Mac users will continue to enjoy the status quo, but more importantly, the majority of the computing world use machines running MS Windows, for which an enormous quantity of viruses exist, so we must be vigilant in checking the files we pass on to our friends and colleagues etc." [/QUOTE]
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