Originally Posted by venice4504
I have another question.
With my current dell, I have a subscription to McAfee. Should I install it to my Mac? Will it work? Do I really need it? Am I asking dumb questions? Thanks!
Its not that macs are immune, as you may somtimes hear, but the unix-like architecture does help. The root kit is substantially more protected in OS X so a virus has to basically ask your permission to do its evil.
That being said, there just arn't as many mac users therefore less incentive to develop viri for the mac.
Personally- and I guess I'm asking for it- I don't run antivirus on any of my macs and I have it set to run nightly on all my PCs. I find Norton for the mac doesn't to much more than take up processor time.
I also have claimAV running on my firewall though so I feel somewhat more protected.