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We are all notoriously snobbish when it comes to not installing anti-virus software, but largely because we all know that malware is essentially non-existent when it comes to the Mac. Yes, yes, there's the occasional scare, but seriously: when was the last time that you noticed an actual piece of malware on the Mac of someone you know that actually did any harm? Yeah, exactly.
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Nevertheless, the Washington Post's Brian Krebs noticed a November 21 technical note published on the Apple website that reads:
Apple encourages the widespread use of multiple anti-virus utilities so that virus programmers have more than one application to circumvent, thus making the whole virus writing process more difficult.
Of course, Apple has long-touted the fact that Macs just, simply don't get viruses. Remember this ad?
While it's probably a good idea to install anti-virus software, I find it particularly telling that in a self-reported ZDNet survey, 60 percent of respondents don't have anti-virus software on their Mac and don't intend to install any.
I'm definitely in that group.
