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You miss the point. There is Jo reason because a future Mac virus will use a exploit not currently known because it's a "future" virus. No antivirus made today can scan for tomorrows viruses. The only reason there are antivirus programs for
Macs is in entripises etc they don't want
Macs passing pc viruses around. This as well as the money they can make as well. The single biggest way a PC virus is detected is by knowing suspicious behavior of viruses in general or behavior of a specific virus. If you don't know what to search for you simply can't find anything thus Mac antivirus doesn't make you future proof.
Myrm said:But you could say that about a Windows PC. As long as you have common sense and some education, why have AV on a Windows PC?
At the end of the day if somebody wants to get AV for their Mac then get it. Just because somebody else decides not to use it doesn't make it right. Just remember; there may not be viruses for Macs out there but there are trojans. One day an enterprising virus writer will create a virus for Mac. It's bound to happen if Mac continue to become more popular. Then we'll see how smug these nay-sayers are.
You miss the point. There is Jo reason because a future Mac virus will use a exploit not currently known because it's a "future" virus. No antivirus made today can scan for tomorrows viruses. The only reason there are antivirus programs for
Macs is in entripises etc they don't want
Macs passing pc viruses around. This as well as the money they can make as well. The single biggest way a PC virus is detected is by knowing suspicious behavior of viruses in general or behavior of a specific virus. If you don't know what to search for you simply can't find anything thus Mac antivirus doesn't make you future proof.