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“Do I need an anti-virus software for Mac?”
“If McAfee or Symantec develops anti-virus software for Mac, then they must somehow be vulnerable too?”

These questions have always been raised by Windows users who plan to make a switch-over. Their worries are entirely understandable considering how much damages viruses can cause. Is Mac OS X susceptible to the countless viruses, Trojans, and malware that are hunting out there?

Mac OS X is built upon an open source “Darwin” operating system similar to that of UNIX. Both Darwin and UNIX are stable and secure, OS X also greatly benefit from that. Apple’s developers and security experts are constantly spending huge amount of man-hour into ensuring that the operating system is safe and sound from viruses, with this, Mac users are already getting metric tons of prevention when they adopt the operating system. To date, OS X has remained safe and sound, especially when compared to its counterparts.

Most anti-virus solutions for Mac target at removing Windows viruses from infected files before they were distributed to other Windows users. As these viruses do not affect OS X, users are actually expensing their own resources to help mitigate a problem that affect Windows users.