The Washington Post , the BBC , Cnet , and other outlets are direct out that Apple is , for the first time ever , “ restfully ” recommending anti - virus software for Mac OS X. A niggling enquiry shows that this is completely false .
Here ’s the Apple tone they taper at , posit the erstwhile hypothesis that Apple isfeeling the heat of the increase market shareand , therefore , an increasing risk of virus attacks :
TheBBC labels this as the result of a “ invigorated terror ” . TheWashington Post wondersif they will contain showing their Mac and PC “ Virus ” TV Commercial . Cnet goes as far as pronounce that“Apple changes its melodic line by advising Mac user to instal antivirus software in nod that even Mac user are n’t immune to rising malware threats . ”(they have edited their fib after it was demonstrated false by some net substance abuser ) . The realness is that the note above is just an update to this financial backing clause from 2007 :
The new tech support bill , which even shows the extension from the old clause , only list new anti - virus package versions . This is normal in tech notes .
In fact , the older tech note itself is actually nothing new either : Apple offered anti - virus software as part of their .Mac subscription . In fact , the company has been recommending virus software since the pre - Unix old age .
In other words : No conspiracy theories , no “ restfully published ” technical note . Just the same quondam good word they have been doing constantly .
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