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www.bit-tech.net — Apple has updated its support site with a suggestion that users of Mac OS X employ some form of anti-virus defence in the wake of several Mac-based trojans.
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Apple now recommends users to use anti-virus
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... Bit Tech reports Apple is now recommending its users to use an anti-virus application:
According to ITWire's Stephen Withers, Apple has quietly been updating its knowledge base with an entry which encourages the widespread use of multiple antivirus utilities so that virus programmers have more than one application to circumvent, thus making the whole virus writing process more difficult.
While not actually going all-out and saying that the Mac platform is vulnerable to viruses indeed, many Mac users consider the enhanced security of ...
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