Apple recommends AV protection

Robert Hallock 2 Dec, 2008 at 12:31pm ET Article published in Tech

In a low-key posting on the Apple support website, the Cupertino vendor has suggested that users of Macintosh computers employ a panel of AV solutions.

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. Here are some available antivirus utilities:

Apple goes on to identify three solutions from vendors such as Norton and McAfee that are supposed to fit the bill.

Howdy doody, irony Tuesday.

Comments

2 Dec 2008 ~ 1:13pm _k crazy crazy two out of the three that they are recommending can be purchased in the apple store. Thats really nice of them.
2 Dec 2008 ~ 4:43pm kryyst It's more so people aren't passing infected email attachments onto windows users.
2 Dec 2008 ~ 4:56pm Snarkasm ^
2 Dec 2008 ~ 5:45pm Garg Turns out it's an old article and old Apple policy.
3 Dec 2008 ~ 12:10pm jared yup, apple removed it

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-10111958-83.html

So yeah, OSX is still safe then I guess