Do you need to use anti-virus software on a Mac?

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- September 8, 2020 at 4:29 pm #4013
  
  David Harrison
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  Probably not.
  
  I’ve just loaded Malwarebytes on our iMac and MacBook Pro computers – provided by our bank – and only found one piece of tracker code, on one machine, which was very old and most probably not active. I deleted it.
  
  Macs have a very good history of not being hacked, and when they are they close the problem down very quickly. This is a benefit of Apple owning both the hardware and software and being able to control which of the latter is installed on MacOS.
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