![]() ![]() ![]() Intego VirusBarrier Scanner on the Mac App Store Intego Launches VirusBarrier Scanner - Free Mac Antivirus | The Mac Security Blog The good news is the best AV software for your Mac (based on the last believeable comparison tests from a few years ago) comes in a free version! your business requires that you have it, or your data is extra important and you really need to do everything in your power to safeguard it), what you want is AV software that is known to be both effective, and harmless to your Mac. Most fully interactive AV software has been known to slow Macs to a crawl, and some AV software from certain vendors has been known to carry malware itself, or to do malware-like things. One problem with anti-virus (AV) software is that a lot of AV software does more harm than it prevents. That’s because there are extremely few threats in the wild for the Macintosh (there are *a huge number* for Windows), and because the Macintosh has several layers of malware protection built-in. And if you are on a Macintosh discussion list you never hear from any users whose Macs were damaged by malware. Yet you never hear of an entire office that uses Macs being ravaged by malware in the media. The overwhelming number of Macintosh users go entirely without. (I can provide links to articles to back up the following on request.)
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