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<blockquote data-quote="Ember1205" data-source="post: 1710177" data-attributes="member: 374272">Limiting activities to only &quot;people you know&quot; doesn't eliminate the risk. I get emails fairly regularly that appear to be from people that are in my address book but they are clearly SPAM / phishing / malware / something &quot;bad&quot;. If someone that I know gets their email hacked, my contact info is now available to be used as a target. So, even with people you know, you still have to be smart.While I agree with Randy that there have been little to no efforts put successfully into writing malware for the Mac and targeting the Mac OS X platform, I do not hold the same view of not taking steps to protect yourself until after someone else (or you) DOES get hacked. I'm comfortable running my own personal MacBook Air without antivirus because I know how to stay away from dangerous sites and such. The family iMac, however, is a different story. The other users of the machine are NOT as well-versed as I am, and one has even been bitten badly a few times before on Windows. So, I will run the firewall and antivirus on the iMac because it's prudent.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ember1205, post: 1710177, member: 374272"] Limiting activities to only "people you know" doesn't eliminate the risk. I get emails fairly regularly that appear to be from people that are in my address book but they are clearly SPAM / phishing / malware / something "bad". If someone that I know gets their email hacked, my contact info is now available to be used as a target. So, even with people you know, you still have to be smart. While I agree with Randy that there have been little to no efforts put successfully into writing malware for the Mac and targeting the Mac OS X platform, I do not hold the same view of not taking steps to protect yourself until after someone else (or you) DOES get hacked. I'm comfortable running my own personal MacBook Air without antivirus because I know how to stay away from dangerous sites and such. The family iMac, however, is a different story. The other users of the machine are NOT as well-versed as I am, and one has even been bitten badly a few times before on Windows. So, I will run the firewall and antivirus on the iMac because it's prudent. [/QUOTE]

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