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<blockquote data-quote="Lifeisabeach" data-source="post: 1903655" data-attributes="member: 38864"><p>"If" it works. With regards to Norton and McAfee, there is a very high level of contempt for those pieces of anti-malware apps in the Mac community at large because they cause a lot of problems and solve nothing. These very forums are riddled with examples of it. I honestly don't know about Kaspersky because I see it mentioned very infrequently, but I do know it's frowned upon.</p><p></p><p>As for macOS protecting you against phishing? My sentiments are the same as MacInWin. If you don't trust yourself to not click on every random link you get in an email, then you are going to be a victim sooner or later. But let's talk about this anyway. Firstly, you have to understand what phishing is. It's an attempt to direct you to a website that poses as something of value to trick you into entering credentials for a site you use. Could be a fake PayPal site, banking, etc. Safari already has anti-phishing features. If you try to go to a website that is a known fraud, you WILL get an alert. AV software is no better at this.. they don't have any mysterious tech that magically knows if a website is a fraud or potential one... they match to a list of known ones just like Safari already does. So there's that. Now, as part of any sensible internet security, you should be using a good adblocker. And a good one has anti-phishing features also. I use the paid AdGuard for Mac. Great piece of software. Ghostery is another held in high regard. So you SHOULD be double-covered already. Those aside, let's say you get directed to a REALLY clever phishing site that is brand new and no one knows about it yet. Here's where common sense and good security practices come into play: use a password manager. With stupidly strong passwords that you don't know. Not knowing your passwords means you have to rely on your password manger to enter them, and you CANNOT autofill your credentials on a phishing site because the domain won't match what you have stored. Of course you COULD just manually copy/paste your credentials, but at this point you'd just be being dense.</p><p></p><p>So ask yourself... does it make ANY SENSE AT ALL to have yet a 3rd piece of software screening all your internet traffic? You already have a browser working to protect you and an adblocker. AV software just adds more overhead with ZERO benefit.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lifeisabeach, post: 1903655, member: 38864"] "If" it works. With regards to Norton and McAfee, there is a very high level of contempt for those pieces of anti-malware apps in the Mac community at large because they cause a lot of problems and solve nothing. These very forums are riddled with examples of it. I honestly don't know about Kaspersky because I see it mentioned very infrequently, but I do know it's frowned upon. As for macOS protecting you against phishing? My sentiments are the same as MacInWin. If you don't trust yourself to not click on every random link you get in an email, then you are going to be a victim sooner or later. But let's talk about this anyway. Firstly, you have to understand what phishing is. It's an attempt to direct you to a website that poses as something of value to trick you into entering credentials for a site you use. Could be a fake PayPal site, banking, etc. Safari already has anti-phishing features. If you try to go to a website that is a known fraud, you WILL get an alert. AV software is no better at this.. they don't have any mysterious tech that magically knows if a website is a fraud or potential one... they match to a list of known ones just like Safari already does. So there's that. Now, as part of any sensible internet security, you should be using a good adblocker. And a good one has anti-phishing features also. I use the paid AdGuard for Mac. Great piece of software. Ghostery is another held in high regard. So you SHOULD be double-covered already. Those aside, let's say you get directed to a REALLY clever phishing site that is brand new and no one knows about it yet. Here's where common sense and good security practices come into play: use a password manager. With stupidly strong passwords that you don't know. Not knowing your passwords means you have to rely on your password manger to enter them, and you CANNOT autofill your credentials on a phishing site because the domain won't match what you have stored. Of course you COULD just manually copy/paste your credentials, but at this point you'd just be being dense. So ask yourself... does it make ANY SENSE AT ALL to have yet a 3rd piece of software screening all your internet traffic? You already have a browser working to protect you and an adblocker. AV software just adds more overhead with ZERO benefit. [/QUOTE]
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