MacLife: What's your recommendation on virus protection? Do I even need it for my Mac?

09/11/2007
by The Mac|Life Staff

When it released Mac OS X, Apple became the largest vendor of a Unix-based operating system. Unix is a highly popular operating system and is much more well known by hackers good and bad than earlier versions of the Mac OS, which were generally considered much less interesting to serious hackers, virus writers, and other digital creeps. Well, six years into the OS X journey, we've yet to see a serious virus or spyware threat, which means that if you're not using an antivirus solution, that's not as bad as, say, not backing up.

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