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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rod" data-source="post: 1759784" data-attributes="member: 204485">Unfortunately this terminology issue also applies to the developers of software.  What has been said above is all true but to add to the confusion for consumers, perhaps partly due to the blurring of lines, developers who produce security apps are also labelling their software as anti virus when they actually mean anti malware or anti adware.You will find anti virus software in the Mac App Store for example but if you check them carefully you will see that they do other things like scanning for adware or "vulnerability" which is really rubbish but it sounds good.I concur with what has been said, there are only two things we Mac users need to worry about.  Adware, easily blocked with free browser extensions and Malware such as the excellent Malwarebytes.</blockquote>