On the other hand Trojans seem to get their way into a system via weak points in the browsers or other applications. There is so much discussion about iMac not needing virus scanners, because is well protected. Is El Capitan checking for virus/malware infections in the system? Windows viruses are not designed to be in any way understood by Mac OS X and can not be executed, the code would interpreted as gibberish if someone tried to compile and run it, either way it would be entirely innocuous to Mac OS X.Ĥ) keep your mac patched, up to to date from Apple, the security patches they release are to prevent known and potential exploits. If you are using a Mac AV a solution to prevent Windows infections this is a serious flaw with having a windows computer on your network and not having it do this itself.

that does not mean there won't be one tomorrow or next week or next year, but currenlty running AV will be looking for theoretical, its never been tested on Mac to know it would be usable if a Mac virus existed. While milage may vary the bulk of posts here suggest users who have installed a 3rd party Mac AV solution can experience issues not limited to kernel panics and crashes as well a overall system performance degradation.ģ) there currently NO virus found by any securities lab in the world for mac, none, zero. 1) No OS X does not run active 'scans' (see item 4) like Anti Virus applications.Ģ) the majority consensus around here is from our finding on these forums mac anti-virus is about as bad as finding an actual 'theoretical' virus (see item 3) for mac and having it running on your mac or shooting yourself in the foot with a handgun, take your pick.

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