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<blockquote data-quote="ncage" data-source="post: 1072697" data-attributes="member: 62363">I pretty much use every OS....but i like to NOT use windows whenever possible. Do i think MacOS is not vulnerability to malware......certainly not (no system is 100% immunie) but IMO its more secure by design than Windows. That being said most of the av products i&#039;ve tried to Mac have sucked. Kaspersky tries to add pretty much every malware blocking feature in the windows client to mac. While, in theory this is great, in execution it sucks. I couldn&#039;t get my network based timemachine backups to work. I deal with their support &amp; honestly it was PAINFUL. They did end up resolving the issue in the end (they had to patch kaspersky) but weeks later it was broken again for whatever reason. So at that point i gave up. I also had similar issues with avast. In the end i chose bitdefender. They don&#039;t try add every feature to bitdefender for the mac like kaspersky does. Bitdefender is more minimal: no firewall, no behavior blocker ,ect ect.....just a malware scanning engine. If you want to block malicious domains just install traffic light into your browser. This is what i ended up going with. I also tried eset (which was heavy on the mac).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="ncage, post: 1072697, member: 62363"] I pretty much use every OS....but i like to NOT use windows whenever possible. Do i think MacOS is not vulnerability to malware......certainly not (no system is 100% immunie) but IMO its more secure by design than Windows. That being said most of the av products i've tried to Mac have sucked. Kaspersky tries to add pretty much every malware blocking feature in the windows client to mac. While, in theory this is great, in execution it sucks. I couldn't get my network based timemachine backups to work. I deal with their support & honestly it was PAINFUL. They did end up resolving the issue in the end (they had to patch kaspersky) but weeks later it was broken again for whatever reason. So at that point i gave up. I also had similar issues with avast. In the end i chose bitdefender. They don't try add every feature to bitdefender for the mac like kaspersky does. Bitdefender is more minimal: no firewall, no behavior blocker ,ect ect.....just a malware scanning engine. If you want to block malicious domains just install traffic light into your browser. This is what i ended up going with. I also tried eset (which was heavy on the mac). [/QUOTE]

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