Can’t believe when I first read this but it looks like Apple has been telling its Mac users to install multiple anti-virus software for some time now.
There are 3 commercial anti-virus softwares that are made for Macs as well as the iPhone and iPod Touch.
Intego VirusBarrier X5
Mac OS X 10.4 or higher
Also scans iPhone and iPod Touch for malware
Price: $69.95
Norton AntiVirus 11.0 for Mac
Price: $49.95
McAfee VirusScan for Mac 8.6 (McAfee Virex 7.7 for Macintosh)
Price: $36.55
Apple has been selling some of these anti-virus on their online store for some time now so I wonder why they had this ad in the first place?
What’s more surprising was that Apple is actually recommending to its users that they should run multiple-antivirus software:
“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.”
No wonder Apple had its recent ad banned in UK for misleading consumers.
This is not a problem in most of cases with OSX itself or even Apple (as many people can say), but with people themselves and third part applications. As you know OSX is build with on BSD (most secure system), but also (by default) all ingeration into the system should be done with admin password. People most of the time don’t read this information. On the second way there is also problem with holes in Firefox, Adobe products which Apple doesn’t monitor.
So in my opinion words like 35 viruses/trojans 10000 viruses/trojans are useless, because it’s always problem with other applications and users.
Read my blog > Mac and Viruses
“OS X is still the world’s most advanced operating system.” This speaks the fanboi without facts.
LOL! MULTIPLE ANTI-VIRUS? ARE YOU CRAZY?
EVEN THE TOP OS LIKE WINDOWS DOESNT EVEN AGREED FOR MULTIPLE AV! AND FOR ALL IVE THOUGHT MAC OS IS INVULNERABLE FOR VIRUSES. SO THE APPLE COM. ADMITTED THAT THEY ARE VULNERABLE TO VIRUS IN SPITE OF THEIR OWN FILE TYPES! HELL!
that’s weird. i thought mac is virus free.
@ja i, too, took on that misconception hehe