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Should I Get An Antivirus For My Macbook?
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first of all. all the answers below are incorrect. you can technically get a virus on a mac. its a human made os. secondly there is no built in virus protect. but its a unix based operating system. unix is the living room for all programmers if someone made a virus for it they would be ambushing there fellow programmers and even there fellow hackers. thats why people havent yet. its sacred ground for programmers. not because its fun to program on a mac it sucks but linux is great. now does this mean someone wont make a virus for mac. who knows. right now people dont. does this mean you should put virus protection on it. the answer is no you shouldnt. one of the main advantage mac has is it runs faster because it does not need one. and thats why you bought it because it was simple. if for some reason your not secure and mac says its recommeneded to get one by then you mind as well head on back to windows because mac lost its main advantage. and mac wont let that happen unless they dont plan to be around long sellling computers.
and dont listen to cobra above its one thing to make a local virus i can in 5 seconds with one line of code delete everything on your computer. that area cant be secured you just need to keep an eye who is on your computer. if i was sitting in front of it. the secure part is i doubt cobra above can make a virus that can be remotely activate on your computer from the internet. thats what has not been done yet to a mac and as long as you know who is physically touching your computer at the moment your safe.
WRong answers. . . MAC’s CAN get viruses, however the likelihood is slim.
The only reason why getting a virus on a MAC is slim is because this. If you are writing a virus, would you write one to infect an Apple or a PC? WHich one would infect more users? Bingo.
So, yes, they can get viruses, and you should ALWAYS have an antivirus installed.
It’s recommended to protect your computer and data. However there’s nothing a little reformat couldn’t fix in a jiffy at the expense of everything on your drive.