I've read on other sites that Bitdefender is OK, but not the 'best' anti-virus program, and although the answer is probably contextual (depending on the type of internet activity an individual performs, AND the OSX, and I have a partitioned hard-drive with Yosemite and snow leopard).Īnd I thought it was 'general knowledge' that anti-virus programs were now necessary for macs, but I'm too lazy to dig through Discussions in the community. BUT AN APPLE TECH SUPPORT AGENT advised me to use whatever anti-virus program he himself loaded for me.

This was over two years ago so I'm foggy on the details. I have Bitdefender Antivirus (for mac) I had uploaded a previous free version, or became confused and thought Bitdefender was the same as whatever free antivirus I still have, or do not have, because I did, in fact, have a virus. Regardless of the clarification, my takeaway was the former: NONE NEEDED. Or maybe I'm confused: no specific anti-malware is RECOMMENDED by Apple. 'Does Official Apple Support recommend any macOS Anti-Malware?' I've read the response to another recent string:

Malware cleaner for mac yosemite