Is an added security protection needed for Apple products?

susanfromxxxx wrote:

Is more security required for a Mac? If so, should one purchase a virus protection product? What is the best product to purchase?

Third party anti-virus products are not required and should not be installed. These apps use system resources while providing no benefit. And they may cause problems. Security is built-in to the MacOS.

See this user tip:

Effective defenses against malware and ot… - Apple Community

By far the easiest way to cause instability and crashing is to install ANY third-party speeder-uppers, Cleaners, Optimizers, or Virus scanners. or a VPN that you installed yourself.

The idea that a third party, with no special knowledge of the inner workings of MacOS, can somehow find a simple way to protect your computer — that is not already being done by MacOS itself — suggests that the MacOS developers are somehow "holding out on you". That is absurd.

You should remove any and all (other than Apple built-in) virus scanners, speeder uppers, optimizers, cleaners, App deleters or VPN packages you installed yourself, or anything of that ilk.