New Hippo Techie: 5 free Mac antivirus programs

Get a Mac, they said. Macs don’t get viruses, they said.

What they meant was, “Apple Macintosh computers are much less likely than Windows computers to be affected by malicious programs, partly because the operating system is generally more secure and partly because its market share is so much lower and therefore not as appealing a target.” They absolutely didn’t mean, “Macs are not capable of being infected by a virus.” Because they absolutely are.

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