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<blockquote data-quote="Game Of Thrones" data-source="post: 957109" data-attributes="member: 23430"><p>one of the best explanations of why you actually shouldn't install security software on a mac. a simple habit of installing known apps and visiting safe websites makes you near 99 precent safe with a mac and even windows. i have an m1 air which is my primary laptop and i take it as my primary device anyday compared to our windows laptops and desktops. you don't have to tinker with a mac or ios system. you use them. big sur was one of the most significant security upgrades to mac which for normal users was not advertised by apple. you hear news about a new malware for mac and think that they are unsafe but the impact they have and how many people get infected is actually really low and most who got infected used cracked software or had careless behavior. as someone who used macs as primary for about 7 years i never got a malware or bad app and my friends too didn't had any problem.</p><p>the realtime protection of most security softwares does NOT slow down the system noticeably but will create odd behavior i tested bitdefender and Kaspersky for mac as curiosity and i don't recommend installing one. they create odd behaviors like bad standby behavior, slow login in login screen(had that with kaspersky) and some other stuff. the mac os does not have the security software friendly behavior of windows because it has strict rules for programs behavior which makes it more secure by default.</p><p>as a mac user i say don't install security softwares. in future you may need them as the more users a platform get the more attention from malware writers it will get. but for now you don't need them.just use your mac.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Game Of Thrones, post: 957109, member: 23430"] one of the best explanations of why you actually shouldn't install security software on a mac. a simple habit of installing known apps and visiting safe websites makes you near 99 precent safe with a mac and even windows. i have an m1 air which is my primary laptop and i take it as my primary device anyday compared to our windows laptops and desktops. you don't have to tinker with a mac or ios system. you use them. big sur was one of the most significant security upgrades to mac which for normal users was not advertised by apple. you hear news about a new malware for mac and think that they are unsafe but the impact they have and how many people get infected is actually really low and most who got infected used cracked software or had careless behavior. as someone who used macs as primary for about 7 years i never got a malware or bad app and my friends too didn't had any problem. the realtime protection of most security softwares does NOT slow down the system noticeably but will create odd behavior i tested bitdefender and Kaspersky for mac as curiosity and i don't recommend installing one. they create odd behaviors like bad standby behavior, slow login in login screen(had that with kaspersky) and some other stuff. the mac os does not have the security software friendly behavior of windows because it has strict rules for programs behavior which makes it more secure by default. as a mac user i say don't install security softwares. in future you may need them as the more users a platform get the more attention from malware writers it will get. but for now you don't need them.just use your mac. [/QUOTE]
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