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You heard it here 2nd

Well, the time has come for viruses to hit the Apple Environment. Just today in iMac training we were using a small program to crash our computers and try to figure out how to fix it. But on the wider scale, Apple has released a support page encouraging the use of Anti-Virus software (multiple softwares even) to protect against the growing threat of Malware.

Mac OS: Antivirus Utilities support page.

Funny thing is, we in the tech industry knew this day would come for a while. Just yesterday, someone in class remarked how easy it would be to crash an entire Mac system with a simple bash script, since we all know the Mac OS is built on the Unix OS.

This brings up 2 interesting points:
1) Regardless of how you feel about the whole Mac vs. PC contention, PCs have had years of experience of dealing with Malware and the current defenses have been tuned to adjust to the growing number of Malware in existence and under development/soon to be developed. You might say that the Mac world might almost have to thank PCs for developing such sophisticated softwares to fight against Malware, and changing a bit of coding in order to allow Macs to join the show already in progress.

2) Must see TV

So, if you own a Mac you might want to start investing the money you DIDN'T spend on Norton in years past into getting some Norton to protect your CPU. (Notice I said Norton, NOT McAFEE!!!)

And to answer your question, Yes, that actually IS what I do for Apple (for those that watched the entire episode).