Should I even bother with an Antivirus app?

[Catastrophe.]

When I first bought my iMac I downloaded an antivirus app straight away. I tried iAntvirus at first but for some reason I couldn't turn on "Protect My Mac" so I now use Sophos. Apparently Sophos is quite useless, I've heard it doesn't actually delete any threats :|

I've had this Mac for months and I've had no problems. I did stumble across a Mac rouge antivirus (Mac Security or whatever the hell it's called) using google image search but I got out of it straight away as I knew it was dodgy.

Really, is there any point for Mac Antiviruses?

 

[alust2013]

Short answer: no.

 

[r.j.s]

No, since there are currently no Mac viruses, there are no known signatures for them to look for. A zero day exploit will hit everyone just as hard.

 

[MacDawg]

Just use common sense, only download from reputable sources, and pay attention when you enter your admin password and you should be fine

I have never used antivirus on my Macs for OS X

 

[Catastrophe.]

That's what I thought tbh. All you really need is common sense :/ As soon as I seen the Rouge I quit Safari and all was well. I have W.O.T. installed on Safari so I only go on trusted websites. And "open "safe" files after downloading" is switched off.

I may just get rid of Sophos now.

 

[ScoobyMcDoo]

One thing I do use is opendns for my dns server. I know this is not really not much protection, but it keeps my family members from wondering to adware sites. I remember when my wife called me up to tell me she kept getting a block from opendns when she just had to get the plugin needed to print out a coupon...