I think your advice is still quite sound Adam, though I'm sure Sam is the man to advise!
Since my first Mac in 1984, I've never installed any anti-virus software and to date, as far as I know, I've still never had a problem. AppleInsider.com are often pointing out that a number of sensational "disaster" headlines are simply Apple click-bait stories and that infections only happen if you've done something rather foolish along the lines you mentioned by clicking on a link or providing information you really shouldn't or on iOS problems invariably require that you have jail-broken your device. My basic approach is any emails from a/my "bank" or similar get marked as junk straight off. Don't provide a PIN and anything that says "dear customer" instead of your real name, gets junked. Always check the sender's email and if it purports to be from, Lloyds, say, but comes from "[email protected]" or similar should be treated as garbage. I think basically it comes down to, check the source and destination of anything inviting you to click or tap or suchlike. If it looks a bit odd then bin it. If it is real then they will contact you again. A happy, virus, phishing and malware free New Year to one and all. Stephen We are Costa of Borg. We will add your vibrancy and distinctiveness to our own. Your town and your customers will service us. Resistance is futile. > On 28 Dec 2014, at 13:07, mac98aop <[email protected]> wrote: > > All done on all machines. > > Just quickly though, I'm mindful that over the years, I've always told > friends and family "not to worry with system clogging antivirus stuff for a > Mac. Just be sensible online, and don't type admin passwords in unless you > know why, and you'll be fine." > > Are those days over? Seems this NTP vulnerability for SnowLeopard/Lion > machines is rather worrying? > > I've always bought the line that OSX is inherently secure (as Unix based), > compared to Windows?! > > Am I out of touch/misinformed/naive all 3?! > > Do hope you all had a great Christmas and some enjoyed some new Apple > products! > > AP > > >> On Tuesday, December 23, 2014 1:43:41 PM UTC, Nicholas Holt wrote: >> critical - Apple’s terminology. It was released today. You can get it via >> the App Store. Apple is suggesting it’s installed asap. >> >> >> N > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Sussex Mac User Group" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
