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It is true. I don’t know a single person who runs any kind of antivirus on a mac and I’ve never heard of anyone getting a virus. Does it happen? Sure, there are 8 billion people in the world. Let’s not pretend mac needs an antivirus running like windows does.

Mac viruses exist. We can laugh at the cryptocurrency people all we want, but downloading sketchy apps, on MacOS (as well as Windows) has gotten more than a few people's cryptocurrency wallets drained.

Any Mac on corporate environment where liability is a thing, is quite certainly running some kind of systems scanner.

That’s true. And this piece of sh* consumes at least 1 GB of RAM constantly.

specifically, Santa.

https://santa.dev/

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