Mac Anti-Virus

I acknowledge that I haven't posted in a few months and for a variety of reasons (not the least being laziness). I figure I might as well start up again and set the goal to post at least weekly.

This week I wanted to write about Anti-Virus for Mac Computers. There have been multiple virus outbreaks on Mac Computers in the past few months. For the past 2 decades the philosophy that has perpetuated was that Mac computers were innately secure from Malware. There are a couple reasons for this. The first is that Mac Computers had such a small market share that the indivuduals/groups that created Malware didn't find it even closely as profitable to target Mac Computers as they did Windows computers. A second reason is the marketing department of Apple worked hard to convince those who had previously been the victim of Malware that all their problems would be solved by going to a Mac (remember this commercial?).

Sophos, an Anti-Malware company, released a great video on the topic of Mac Computers being susceptible to Malaware

Here are a list of providers with Free Malware protection for Macs.
Avast
Sophos