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Apple Anti-Virus Advisory Overhyped
By: Brian Prince
2008-12-03
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Apple's note advising users to protect their Macs with anti-virus is neither new nor reflective of a significant increase in malware targeting Mac computers. It is an update of an old advisory with the same recommendation.Apple users should not panic the advice by Apple that Mac users
should use anti-virus is neither new, nor reflective of a significant
increase in malware attacks targeting Apple.
The existence or relative lack thereof of Mac malware has been a
catalyst for arguments between Mac and Microsoft Windows users. But as
pointed out by our Joe Wilcox and at least one other blogger, the Apple
advisory is not new; its an update of a previous recommendation that
users take advantage of anti-virus to protect their computers.
Read Joes blog post on Apple Watch here.
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