<---- put very well, this could change over night but for now you need nothing. Don't worry when you need one you will know it. It will be the biggest media storm ever.
To shave a fine edge on the question of whether MACs are vulnerable to viruses. The reason why there have been no MAC OS 10 viruses in 12 years has more to do with the laziness of the folks who write virus code. They just don't want to bother writing virus code for UNIX platforms -- too much trouble. So they focus their talents on the weaker Windows environment. It is just easier.
A case of optimizing the effects of time and effort. That only means that when a really neurotic code slinger gets motivated, then there will be a MAC virus.
And whoever said -- None of the current protection plans will be effective -- Yes probably that is correct.
Oh and I forgot. My MAC hard drive crashed a week ago right after I installed the most recent Intel security update. Lost a lot of stuff.
Just my 2 cents. I say get it under certain circumstances. I just renewed my Norton Anti-virus. I got my first virus on my mac from my online college professor. He sent me my paper back graded and with it was a macro virus. Let me say it did NOTHING to my mac. I saved the file to my flash drive, and then reopened it on my PC at work. It was fine. I reopened the same file at home and there was a virus. The virus software at my work didn't catch it because it was crappy virus software.
I went out and bought the virus software. Scanned my computer, and there was the virus. Some kind of macro virus. So, lesson learned, if you are sharing files with a windows computer, I would recommend virus software. Even though it did nothing to the MAC it could have caused havoc to Windows, the mac just being the carrier of the virus!
