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What is it about Mac OS that prevents viruses?
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<blockquote data-quote="harryb2448" data-source="post: 1581209" data-attributes="member: 42497"><p>No viruses for Mac OS X. There were a couple in olden days of OS 9 and earlier. Best protection against malware is safe browser practices including never ever divulge passwords, make sure download are come from genuine software developers and keep OS X up to date with Security Updates from Apple.</p><p></p><p>If you still feel you MUST have antivirus software coming from the Windows background, go for ClamXAV. Many commercial AV are real process hogs. If you run Windows via BootCamp or Parallels, you do need AV SOFTWARE on that partition. Any virus picked up there cannot be transferred over to OS X.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="harryb2448, post: 1581209, member: 42497"] No viruses for Mac OS X. There were a couple in olden days of OS 9 and earlier. Best protection against malware is safe browser practices including never ever divulge passwords, make sure download are come from genuine software developers and keep OS X up to date with Security Updates from Apple. If you still feel you MUST have antivirus software coming from the Windows background, go for ClamXAV. Many commercial AV are real process hogs. If you run Windows via BootCamp or Parallels, you do need AV SOFTWARE on that partition. Any virus picked up there cannot be transferred over to OS X. [/QUOTE]
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