I recall I had a suspect attachment to an email many years ago reported by the
virus software I was using at the time (I can’t remember which, it may be what
I am using now). But that attachment was said to be a Windows virus. So, in
effect that makes zero effective viruses for me since my first Mac in 1987.
However, in my mind as a low risk but high consequence category, I have
continued to pay for Intego virus software and it has never reported anything
(else).
It doesn’t seem to slow the system down with its “real time scanning”, but if
you want to do a “full scan”, although Activity Monitor doesn’t show much
processor use, it makes the system pretty much unusable and takes a long time
to do the scan.
Ideally I would like to get rid of it.
But, is AV software like vaccination? If enough of us get and stay inoculated,
we have provided immunity for ourselves and herd immunity for the group (ie
disincentivizing Malware creators from bothering with the MacOS)?
Strangely I see Windows as the place where viruses abound, but I run it in
Bootcamp, but for nothing critical to me, so, I haven’t bothered with Windows
AV software. I don’t think I have picked up anything .....
People mightn’t recommend Norton’s, but do you run or recommend other AV
software or just think that no AV software is needed?
Thanks
Adam
On 7 Jun 2020, at 8:52 am, Pete <[email protected]> wrote:
Agreed Ronni 100%.
Regards
Pete
> On 7 Jun 2020, at 8:39 am, Ronni Brown <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi Marcus,
>
> I most certainly agree with Alex, I read all [email protected] and it doesn’t
> change my mind. I’ve never had any Malware on my computers and I would not
> recommend installing Norton AV on any Mac computer.
>
> It is not required and will most likely slow your computer to a crawl.
>
> Kind Regards,
> Ronni
>
> Ronni Brown’s iPad Pro 12.9-inch 256GB
>
>
>>> On 6 Jun 2020, at 11:53 pm, Alex <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>> Hi Marcus & All,
>>
>> I am not an expert but am a bit dubious about Al & his claims especially
>> when he promotes Norton. Although my experience with Norton was on a
>> client’s Windows machine, I found it virtually impossible to delete it from
>> their computer & it made their computer painfully sluggish to use. Could be
>> different on the Mac environment? Others may be able to comment better.
>>
>> Cheers, Alex
>>
>>> On 6 Jun 2020, at 9:57 pm, Marcus Harris <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>> Yes that is interesting, but do you Personally choose to instal AV
>>> software.
>>> I always update my Apple systems ASAP and expect to then be malware secure.
>>> Should I buy Norton as Al suggests?
>>> Regards
>>> Marcus Harris
>>> Mobile +61417965618
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>> On 6 Jun 2020, at 1:48 pm, Stephen Chape <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>> https://macmyths.com/best-malware-detection-for-mac/
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>> Stephen Chape
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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