That said, the commercial and free AV options for the Mac are pretty stable, and they're certainly worth exploring if you want to be a good computing citizen who doesn't relay Windows malware from friend to friend unknowingly. Malware on the Mac, such as there is, is still almost exclusively delivered via social engineering, so please don't install random video codecs downloaded from porn sites.

Everyone who is decrying the sad state of security on the Mac - or, conversely, crediting Apple for waking up and smelling the coffee - is chasing his or her cybertail with a great deal of enthusiasm. So, to sum up, Apple's recommendations have changed not a whit in 18 months. Yes, Apple does sometimes update KB articles, and in this case the same exact 'multiple utilities' copy has been on the support site for a while - the article was originally publishedpresent on Apple's site in June of 2007, and was updated simply to reflect current versioning on the Intego and Symantec AV products. This, of course, brings us to point #2: a careful reading (or really, any reading at all) of the KB item shows the 'Old article: 4454' legend at the top right.

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