3/28/2023 0 Comments Clamxav trial mac![]() ![]() But the flood of malware that the press has been predicting for all that time has never come. If there was going to be a flood of malware for the Mac, it would have come many years ago. After 19 years (just about forever in the computing world, where everything changes really quickly) there has only been a handful of malware for the Macintosh. But I'm not going to use a product now that cannot do anything because it doesn't know what to watch against and that can only degrade the overall performance of the system. If and when a truly nasty set of malware is identified, the A/V developers (and Apple) will create software to address that risk and at that point I would consider if I need to use that software. While you are correct that no device is immune, the Mac is really, really secure and any benefit from any antivirus product on the market is really, really small. For Big Sur they have not only made the system files read-only, they have encrypted them as well. ![]() Apple quickly addresses any identified issues and with each iteration of the OS makes it even harder to attack. That lack of known vector means that the developers of the various A/V products don't know what to look for or where to look for strange processes. Any "hole" in macOS will be a new risk, one that is unknown. Click to expand.The real challenge is that at this point the vector that any such attack that is more than just annoying and which is truly malicious would take is not known. ![]()
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