What is the best anti-virus/spyware detection program for Mac OS?
My best advice is that you probably shouldn’t be installing any antivirus or spyware detection software on your Mac. Please hear me out and let me explain why: I know that every few months some tech journalist gets the juicy idea to (again) run with the story about how the Mac is on the verge of being infested with oodles of new viruses and malware. This has yet to happen. The closest thing we have had to that is the MacDefender malware that made its rounds a couple months ago. Ironically, it threatened Mac users by telling them that they had malware they didn’t have. Sellers of antivirus and anti-malware software are always talking up how at-risk the Mac is, hoping you won’t notice the fact that they’ve been warning of virus outbreaks on OS X since 2002 or so and their only real evidence of this threat is the antivirus software they so conveniently happen to be selling? Because there has been a lack of actual malware outbreaks on OS X, the makers of this software have no idea what kin
