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<blockquote data-quote="Slydude" data-source="post: 1759822" data-attributes="member: 131855">I think you'll find that many of our members do not use such programs on their Macs. This is partly due to the fact that many of these programs are resource hogs that slow performance but the main reasons are: 1. There is a degree of malware protection built into MacOS and it is updated regularly. 2. Because there are currently no actual Mac viruses loose &quot;in the wild&quot; the virus definitions these programs download to check against are usually based on definitions of Windows viruses which don't infect Macs but can infect any Windows partitions on your Mac. There is malware that affects Macs buts these programs as a rule don't address that issue.&nbsp; See <a href="http://www.mac-forums.com/security-awareness/341310-anti-virus-programs.html" target="_blank">this thread</a> for more details. The post by Member Randy B. Singer is particularly informative.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Slydude, post: 1759822, member: 131855"] I think you'll find that many of our members do not use such programs on their Macs. This is partly due to the fact that many of these programs are resource hogs that slow performance but the main reasons are: 1. There is a degree of malware protection built into MacOS and it is updated regularly. 2. Because there are currently no actual Mac viruses loose "in the wild" the virus definitions these programs download to check against are usually based on definitions of Windows viruses which don't infect Macs but can infect any Windows partitions on your Mac. There is malware that affects Macs buts these programs as a rule don't address that issue. See [URL="http://www.mac-forums.com/security-awareness/341310-anti-virus-programs.html"]this thread[/URL] for more details. The post by Member Randy B. Singer is particularly informative. [/QUOTE]

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