What is the best virus protection for a Mac?

Deborah Terreson wrote:

The issue is that many people automatically forward mass mailings that can contain worms/trojan/viruses - whatever - in the attached files. I experienced such a thing many years ago, when I accidentally forwarded the klez worm, nested in an attachment, to a friend.

Whoops.

It didn't do me any harm but oh brother, my friend was not happy. 😟

I have already answered why I asked this question in my answer to a previous post:

The reason I asked the question "Why would I need protection against Windows viruses on a mac ?"

is because of the statement Electricidad made that said:

Everyone requires protection against windows viruses to prevent being host to them and enabling their spread.

Which this statement is confusing as a mac computer ( at the moment ) can't get viruses.😕.

And yeah, watch out for the trolls..

I do try and watch out for trolls as much as I can.😝.

Some just seem to manage to slip through the cracks.😟.

You're welcome.

bitfinder is pretty good

but the entire system is pretty slow

purplelov wrote:

bitfinder is pretty good

Middle of the road, actually: Mac anti-virus testing 2014. There are much better ones available.

That you are still suggesting third-party solutions says that you have not internalized the rest of the discussion on this thread.

The gist of the other suggestions say that the anti-Virus built into Mac OS X is superior, and MUCH less intrusive and disruptive than third-party solutions.

purplelov wrote:

bitfinder is pretty good

but the entire system is pretty slow

Those two couldn't possibly be related, could they?

Bitfinder is a game. Bitdefender is useless. The one thing they have in common is to waste your time.