Als ik het aangehaalde citaat lees is het hebben van een virusscanner op zich geen verplichting.
Ik heb ook helemaal niet geschreven dat AVG beschermd tegen phishing, wel tegen virussen en adware/malware. Dat laatste wordt geregeld tegen gehouden...
macOS heeft XProtect ingebouwd.
Your Mac has built-in anti-malware (or antivirus) functionality. It works an awful lot like antivirus software on Windows, examining applications you run and ensuring they don’t match a list of known-bad applications
XProtect
Ow, ik kwam op hetzelfde artikel uit. Geen extra virusscanners nodig, dat was me al lang duidelijk, maar wat met malwarebytes, die spoort toch duidelijk rotzooi op die door XProtect ongemoeid wordt gelaten...
So, How Useful Is XProtect?XProtect is useful, but not perfect. It’s a fairly rudimentary antivirus. It only checks downloaded files run through File Quarantine, which makes it similar to the SmartScreen feature on Windows. It’s designed to sit between your Mac and the web, preventing you from running a few known-malicious applications. That’s it.Unlike other antivirus applications, XProtect doesn’t use any sort of advanced heuristics. It’s just looking for a handful of bad files Apple has specifically listed. This allows Apple to put the brakes on any bit of Mac malware before it gets too out of control and ensures your Mac is protected from downloading any old pieces of malware out there.XProtect is just a convenient way for Apple to blacklist individual pieces of malware. But it doesn’t take care of cleaning up any existing infections and doesn’t check to make sure your Mac is clean in the background. The list of malware is also very limited, with the XProtect file containing 49 definitions at the moment. Apple has added some adware to the XProtect list, but adware is mostly not blocked. Unfortunately, bundled adware is becoming as bad on Mac OS X as it is on Windows.Other technologies do help keep your Mac safe. In particular, Gatekeeper’s default setting prevents applications from running on your Mac unless they’re from the Mac App Store or signed by approved developers.The real question is whether you need a third-party antivirus on your Mac. That’s a tough one. In the past, we (and others) have recommended against antivirus programs for Mac OS X.But crapware on Mac OS X is becoming worse and worse. On the other hand, most antimalware programs don’t block this horrific adware anyway. We still don’t recommend antivirus software for Macs, and we’re not sure which application we’d recommend if we needed to pick one. Still, anti-malware software for Mac OS X is looking more and more useful with each passing day.
Het ding met Malwarebytes Mac is:diens developer Thomas Reed doet niks anders dan dagelijks de library van Malwarebytes definities aanvullen, en dat doet hij érg goed en consistent.
'De Mac houdt zich automatisch vrij van crapware en Malware', dat zou pas een reclame slogan zijn om mee uit te pakken ....
Een schooldirecteur zul je ook niet snel reclame horen maken met de slogan dat zijn school “gegarandeerd pedovrij” is.