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Old December 15th, 2008, 10:34 PM
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Is virus protection necessary for Macs?

I've heard not, but just wanted to ask the majority of people on here if they have virus protection or not?
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Old December 15th, 2008, 10:51 PM
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Nope. It's enough to be cautious. See Mac OS X targeted by Trojan and backdoor tool for info on what you need to be wary of.
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Old December 15th, 2008, 11:25 PM
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I admit that I do have ClamXav installed on my Mac, but I rarely ever fire it up. I mainly use it to scan files that are sent to me by people on Windows computers (one of which is my wife ).
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Old December 16th, 2008, 01:24 AM
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I've got an antivirus - but that's only for the XP virtual machine on my Mac. Since on Mac OS X side I don't even use Microsoft Office, the likelyhoods of discovering a real virus is 0.
This thread also contains a lot of info Viruses on OS X on pro and against
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