Security is a journey not a destination, so it comes as no surprise to me that Apple has officially recommended that users get and use an Anti-Virus program. In a Knowledge Base article posted in June 2007, Apple recommended the use of a commercial AV Program. I went to Apple’s support pages and found two additional encouragements to use AV software[Mac Maintenance Quick Assist and Mac OS X 10.5 Help].
Brian Krebs who writes for the Washington Post broke the story when he published this column. It has caused a bit of a stir in the Mac Community with articles appearing on Ars Technica and TUAW. While Brian has been running AV software for 2 years, I have been running ClamXav for about a year and a half. The reason that I have been running AV software is because I have family members that use Windows and I didn’t want to send anything on to them.
So, I would recommend AV software to all computer users, even Linux users; because it is better to be safe than sorry.
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