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<blockquote data-quote="chscag" data-source="post: 1745038" data-attributes="member: 46727"><p>Unless there is some requirment from your employer or school (if you're a student) to install AV for your Mac, we do not recommend installing an AV program. However, we leave that choice up to you as the owner and user of your machine. Our reason for this is that there are currently no viruses in the wild that can infect your Mac and AV programs in general use resouces and will only find Windows viruses (that can't infect your Mac).</p><p></p><p>The Malwarebytes Anti-Malware app that you have should be run at least often enough to assure there is no malware on your Mac. It's not designed to be run just once.</p><p></p><p>Back to AV software: If you must have an AV product for your Mac, I recommend <a href="http://www.bitdefender.com/solutions/antivirus-for-mac.html?sem_region=COM&utm_source=Google&utm_medium=Search_Brand&gclid=Cj0KEQiA-_HDBRD2lomhoufc1JkBEiQA0TVMmrVzuz8oOG13xJM0MapbnkF67tlkuS1vW0BCL-VuWeIaAv3c8P8HAQ" target="_blank">Bitdefender for the Mac</a> as it is not resource intensive.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="chscag, post: 1745038, member: 46727"] Unless there is some requirment from your employer or school (if you're a student) to install AV for your Mac, we do not recommend installing an AV program. However, we leave that choice up to you as the owner and user of your machine. Our reason for this is that there are currently no viruses in the wild that can infect your Mac and AV programs in general use resouces and will only find Windows viruses (that can't infect your Mac). The Malwarebytes Anti-Malware app that you have should be run at least often enough to assure there is no malware on your Mac. It's not designed to be run just once. Back to AV software: If you must have an AV product for your Mac, I recommend [URL="http://www.bitdefender.com/solutions/antivirus-for-mac.html?sem_region=COM&utm_source=Google&utm_medium=Search_Brand&gclid=Cj0KEQiA-_HDBRD2lomhoufc1JkBEiQA0TVMmrVzuz8oOG13xJM0MapbnkF67tlkuS1vW0BCL-VuWeIaAv3c8P8HAQ"]Bitdefender for the Mac[/URL] as it is not resource intensive. [/QUOTE]
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