It’s an age-old question among Apple fans: Does your Mac need antivirus software? Traditionally, the popular answer has been no — Macs have strong built-in protections, the argument goes, and ...

I've been using Linux as my primary operating system since 1997, and I have never installed a desktop antivirus solution on any computer running the open-source OS. The only exception to that rule has ...

Remember those old I'm a Mac, I'm a PC ads? In one, the Mac looks on, concerned, while the PC keeps sneezing from a virus it's caught, eventually crashing backward onto the ground. For a while, Macs ...

Windows PCs come with antivirus software built-in to protect them from the myriad of attacks that they have to fight off, but what about your Mac? For years the thinking was that Macs didn’t get ...

Intego is the latest publisher of Mac OS X antivirus software to document and claim protection against the largely innocuous OS.X Macarena virus -- a simple C program, not found in the wild (outside ...

For many years, it was accepted wisdom that Mac malware wasn’t really an issue. One of the reasons for that was that the market share was simply too low to make it a worthwhile target for attackers.

Marshall Gunnell is a Tokyo-based tech journalist and editor with over a decade of experience covering IT, cybersecurity and data storage. Alongside CNET, his work has appeared in ZDNET, Business ...

Last week, in my Norton AntiVirus Begone! entry, I offered instructions for removing Norton AntiVirus from a Mac. That entry appeared in this week’s Macworld Weekly Newsletter and prompted a slew of ...