Apple suggests Mac users install antivirus software

[trotsky]

In what appears to be a first, Apple is recommending that Mac users install antivirus software.
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Apple quietly signaled its shift with an item titled "Mac OS: Antivirus utilities" posted on its Support Web site November 21: "Apple encourages the widespread use of multiple antivirus utilities so that virus programmers have more than one application to circumvent, thus making the whole virus writing process more difficult."

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[hobbit709]

1. LOL

That blows their whole "Macs are safer and more secure bs don't it"?

[trotsky]

2. As confirmed by the conspicuous absence of fanbois on this thread. n/t

[hobbit709]

4. You noticed?

I can think of about 4 or 5 that NEVER hesitate to say "Get a Mac" whenever somebody posts about a Windoze problem.

[Deja Q]

10. Common knowledge to anyone who knows anything about the actual industry.

1. Apple leeched from open source -- as Linux and other open source code is used in servers (amongst numerous consumer electronics but I digress), and anti-virus products have existed for Linux for years...
2. Hackers want money. If you were a hacker, would you find the platform with 90% market share? Or 10%?
3. Apple used "We're safer" as a mere marketing campaign. Marketing campaigns will use any spin to sell a product; Apple's marketing division is not going to be immune to making spin.

Any Apple user should be looking out for an anti-virus program and, hell, buy stock in it.

This isn't "the price of success". It's common sense. When you connect your computer into a network in which anybody can connect and have theoretical instant access to, it's no longer secure.

Apples never were any more secure. In pragmatic terms. In marketing hype, they were because so few used them that nobody cared.

Don't think different. Just think.

[RoyGBiv]

3. Awwww ...

Hell, I run anti-virus software on my Linux boxes.

It's about time someone suggested over there at Apple that there is no such thing as invulnerable.

[RoyGBiv]

5. Fanboys Saved

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x4578720

[trotsky]

6. LOL, saw the CNet dispatch this morning.

More proof that Apple is run by its Marketing department. Sometimes that's a great thing, sometimes it's a bad thing. DAMAGE CONTROL! DAMAGE CONTROL!

[charlie]

7. Old and busted, eh?

Macs got just THAT MUCH BETTER in a matter of days. Impressive.

[RoyGBiv]

8. They good over there, yo ..

Awesomeness cubed. B-)

[Gore1FL]

9. It's always been a good idea

especially if files are shared between Macs and PCs. Even if it doesn;t effect the Mac it is silly to share an infected file.