The Apple and Anti-Virus “Debacle”
December 4, 2008
This one is a laughable non-story news. I bet Paul Thurrott was jumping up and down when the news was out. Even the MacBreak Weekly crew missed the whole non-story.
“Oh noes, Apple now recommends Anti-Virus for teh Mac OS Ten!”
“Wait a minuet, they took the article down.”
Seriously, I am pretty sure that starting Thanksgiving day, it would be a slow news end of the year for technology.
Apple bundled Virex Anti-Virus with .Mac subscriptions on the first half of this decade. As a matter of fact, Apple stopped bundling Virex back in 2005.
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Mac/10.5/en/vrx3.html
This is not really news.
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I’m really surprised that the vast majority of people have never run anti-virus software. I always assume people have the software and just run it every once in a while. I use ClamXAV when I want to scan a file I’ve downloaded or received via email, but I don’t have it set up to continually scan. I read a post today at Mac Guru Lounge on the Top 5 Mac Security Tips for the Holidays, which also talked about running AV software.