That is any adware or malware that requires YOU to you to download and install it. These do not exist, so there is nothing for AV software to look for. Viruses are software that self replicate with no need for you to do anything to help that along. I then take their list of possible software I would like to try and look up the web site of the company who actually writes it, and download it directly from them.īeyond that, there are no Mac viruses. They all include adware that installs along with the freeware/shareware/demo software you download.įor number 4, what I do is use those to look up certain kinds of software I'm looking for.
Anything you install from such prompts will be malware or adware. Never believe any site that says you need to download a Flash, Java, codec or other software directly from them.Never even think about download anything from P2P (peer to peer), pirate, or other file sharing sites.
I have never used AV software since then on any computer I've owned. It never found anything and slowed the computer to a crawl when active. It was at least 20 years ago now I had Norton in Windows for one year (that's how long the automatic definitions updates lasted with the purchase). I've used both PCs and Macs for a long time.