All Mac antivirus software is a scam. My mom's friend paid a lot of money to get her Mac cleaned of "viruses". Anyway "Mac antivirus" is an oxymoron. As for antimalware, that is easy to do without paying.
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I laughed when I saw that part in the movie when I first watched it in 2011. The kid said, "This is a UNIX system!"
And then they run a quicktime. Oh that was the movie for Mac fans.
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Company offers free antivirus software? Is this not just a precursor to getting you to buy there antivirus software. Coming from a PC background I've always been suspicious that Norton and others have 1 department creating viruses whilst another creates antivirus software. Or am I just skeptical?
Either way as I'm waiting to buy a new iMac I'm less than happy to hear about Mac viruses.
No virus, not really an issue, I am all for this is hype and paranoia which seems to permeate all of life and is great for news outlets. Buy away, forget Virus Software and turn off Java which you hardly ever need and your fine. Javascript is sandboxed so much safer.
While most spyware components (hijackers especially) get on to people systems through ActiveX, it is possible for spyware to use these security weaknesses in Java to try and infect the users system. A bug discovered in October 2000 allows the system to automatically run signed or unsigned ActiveX scripts by the use of Java without the users permission (ActiveXComponent bug).
And we all know how secure ActiveX is on the PC