Path: csiph.com!weretis.net!feeder4.news.weretis.net!storethat.news.telefonica.de!feedme.news.telefonica.de!telefonica.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Jolly Roger Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: Mac Malware Date: 10 Mar 2017 19:25:56 GMT Organization: People for the Ethical Treatment of Pirates Lines: 22 Message-ID: References: <4wPvA.84517$i7.38100@fx30.fr7> X-Trace: individual.net aP/EdRKtyu3G+Hsu0BM3Bgmj5+aBLUG4bTpqivqC8mxD5pMRSN Cancel-Lock: sha1:y3lnA9qnY7Fm6q5WzRXPGol76ko= Mail-Copies-To: nobody User-Agent: slrn/1.0.1 (Darwin) Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.mac.system:102161 On 2017-03-10, Ken Springer wrote: > > Herein is the crux of your question. If you don't look, how do you > know? And the corollary, how good is the tool you use to look with? > :-) But if your computer isn't malfunctioning in some manner, there's no reason to look to begin with. And if it *is* malfunctioning, it's far better to do a one-time scan with something like MalwareBytes than to install just about any Mac anti-virus scanner. Mac anti-virus apps that constantly scan your computer are notoriously buggy, often make you *more* insecure by opening their own security holes, and often negatively impact the performance of your computer. They won't protect you from zero-day exploits, and the majority of the time if they do trigger on something, it's malware that won't run on Macs anyway. The negatives far outweigh the minor (if any) enhancement to security, IMHO. -- E-mail sent to this address may be devoured by my ravenous SPAM filter. I often ignore posts from Google. Use a real news client instead. JR