Symantec's 'response' has been to point fingers at Apple and blame them, but that approach certainly doesn't solve the real problem for their customers.
I've even had to disable auto-protection to keep my system from locking up.Īnother real issue is that people who surf with Safari are completely unprotected from phishing attacks and malicious web sites. If you search the forum, you'll find many reports of bugs, most going back a year or more, that still aren't fixed.Įxamples of these bugs include virus protection silently disabling itself (leaving your system completely unprotected), the software unactivating itself, and the scan engine not loading. The bigger problem isn't the malware, but the AntiVirus software itself. So the 'threat condition' has been nonexistent for Mac OS X. In fact, since I've had the software on my Mac in the last three years, it's only detected TWO (Windows) viruses (attached to malicious emails). Is it necessary or worth it? I haven't been affected by either of the two Mac malwares that showed up earlier this year.
AntiVirus vendors make their money from people buying their software out of fear, uncertainty, and doubt.
