The item offers three software suggestions: Intego VirusBarrier X5 and Symantec Norton Anti-Virus 11 for Macintosh, both available from the Apple Online Store, and McAfee VirusScan for Mac. On November 21 Apple updated a technical note on its Support Web site that says: "Apple encourages the widespread use of multiple antivirus utilities so that virus programmers have more than one application to circumvent, thus making the whole virus writing process more difficult." It's more a recognition that Mac users are vulnerable to Web application exploits, which have replaced operating system vulnerabilities as the bigger threat to computer users.
#APPLE RECOMMENDED ANTIVIRUS FOR MAC INSTALL#
A follow-up blog will be posted that goes into more detail about the coverage.Īpple is recommending that Mac users install antivirus software.īut don't read this as an admission that the Mac operating system is suddenly insecure.
PST with call back from Apple and link to 2002 Apple anti-virus item.
PST December 2 to correct that Apple previously recommended antivirus software to Mac users, and at 1:50 p.m.
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