Free Anti-Virus Protection For Your Mac
For years, the Mac community has been relatively ignored by the malware community thanks to Windows’ market share, but that era is starting to fade as a result of Apple’s new appeal in the computing market.
Sophos anti-virus app
Sophos
Now security company Sophos has released a Mac anti-virus/anti-malware product for download free of charge.
As I’ve long said, the only thing that made Macs more ‘secure’ is there were only a fraction of the users and even less hackers dedicating their time to finding exploits. That era is coming to a close.
As the popularity of Apple’s other products has brought huge surges of demand in computing products, the malware community can no longer ignore the potential of co-opting our Macs for their botnets.
Microsoft Security Essentials
Microsoft already upset the apple cart in the PC security market by releasing a free anti-virus application for home and small business (10 user limit for businesses) in the form of Microsoft Security Essentials, providing an excellent alternative to other free anti-virus software which is often very limited or has annoying restrictions.
Personally, I’ve never found any one single application that will catch everything – a sentiment most IT professionals will agree to, but having even one installed is better than none and for users who take proper security precautions and keep their systems up to date, one tool might be fine.
