Apple says: Use antivirus...and lots of it!

[Trooper110]

But very very quietly....don't want people thinking our "invulnerable" products could have any security flaws like Windows....

BBC NEWS | Technology | Apple pushes anti-virus for Macs
PC Pro: News: Apple recommends security software for Mac owners
Mac OS: Antivirus utilities

[juneau]

I always thought Mac's were bullet proof. Well, that's what their users normally say.

[BenKenobi]

lulz.

[Gimmie2]

I always thought Mac's were bullet proof. Well, that's what their users normally say.

lol that is total propaganda, ive gotten viruses on macs before, one of them deleted my ENTIRE HARD DRIVE and when i started the computer after that it said "You have been Pwnt by AnThRaX mUfFiNz, have a nice life"

[mapes]

To be honest though the lion's share of virus's are on Windows because they're the largest platform...

[juneau]

To be honest though the lion's share of virus's are on Windows because they're the largest platform...

+1

And that's why Linux is very safe in comparison.

[Trooper110]

rofl, Apple yanked the entry off their support forums when it started hitting the news.

Apple deletes Mac antivirus suggestion | Apple - CNET News

[mapes]

+1

And that's why Linux is very safe in comparison.

from virus's but, not from misconfiguration. A noob install of sendmail, apache or mysql will lead to a compromised box faster than you can read this sentence.

[juneau]

from virus's but, not from misconfiguration. A noob install of sendmail, apache or mysql will lead to a compromised box faster than you can read this sentence.

And i read that pretty fast.

[DougBob]

Apple makes me laugh

[Savage_Hobo]

yaa... at work we require anti-virus protection on all macs... mostly to protect the other computers (windows) from mac users accidentally forwarding on viruses to windows users. But since I'm really cheap we use clamXAv (which is a mac port of the linux ClamAV anti-virus from linux)... it seems to work pretty well.

from virus's but, not from misconfiguration. A noob install of sendmail, apache or mysql will lead to a compromised box faster than you can read this sentence.

+1 ... SOO true!