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Macs had malware long before Mac OS X

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Although viruses native to the Mac arrived slightly later, by the end of the 1990s there were at least 35. Here’s a brief look at the tools available then.

July 13, 2024 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: Virus pandemics

Is 3rd party malware protection almost worthless for the reasonably careful Mac user? What parallels can we draw with the Coronavirus?

March 1, 2020 Macs, Technology

A bug in signature-checking weakens most anti-malware tools

One of the basic checks which all malware protection should make is whether apps and other code have […]

February 22, 2018 Macs, Technology

Avast and AVG anti-virus are returning false positives

Overnight, many users of Avast and AVG anti-virus protection have discovered that apparently normal apps are being reported […]

February 22, 2018 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: Malware has got the upper hand

Most current strategies for detecting and dealing with malware are flawed, and cannot keep pace with new malware variants. What would be better?

May 7, 2017 Macs, Technology

Key security tools for Sierra

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Which anti-virus and security products should you use? Here are some recommendations to keep the malware at bay.

April 25, 2017 Macs, Technology

Why you shouldn’t use cleaning or housekeeping apps

It looked alluring: free up disk space, make my Mac faster, and clean out malware. Should you trust it?

May 28, 2016 General, Macs, Technology

Human aspects of security: what the software vendors don’t always tell you

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Your behaviour is more important a protection against threats than simply installing protective software.

November 23, 2015 Macs, Technology

Primum non nocere

For my money, at the moment, Objective-See’s free products are targeted at the real threats, and don’t screw OS X up or around.

June 26, 2015 Macs, Technology
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