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Apple peels antivirus advice from its support site
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Apple peels antivirus advice from its support site | Apple peels antivirus advice from its support site |
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| Core Dump - Apple and anything else | |
| by Stephen Withers | |
| Wednesday, 03 December 2008 | |
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Apple recently revised a support article that recommended the use of antivirus software on Macs - and now the article has been pulled completely! What's going on?Featured Whitepaper
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But the URL for that page (http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2550) now generates a 'page not found' error. Macworld quoted an Apple spokesperson as saying that the article was "old and inaccurate" - despite it having been updated in the last week or two. It seems Apple may have been embarrassed by the amount of attention the note received from prominent web sites including the BBC. That Apple spokesperson Macworld quoted went on to say "The Mac is designed with built-in technologies that provide protection against malicious software and security threats right out of the box." A brave assertion. It might have been safer if he'd said "that help provide protection", though he did add that "running anti-virus software may offer additional protection". Indeed. Traditional viruses are no longer the problem - please read on. |
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