It also blacklists malicious websites, making sure you do not inadvertently connect to them.
It then reverts data to a pre-tampered state. Sophos Home Mac antivirus protects your Macs from ransomware by shutting down processes that encrypt personal information. The focus of Sophos Home for Mac is to improve your Mac’s cybersecurity posture with enterprise-grade security that offers comprehensive protection against the widest range of threats, both known and unknown. Antivirus protection helps protect your Mac from threats posed by increasing attack surfaces and vectors. Your Mac security should keep in step with rapidly evolving attack vectors such as phishing, identity theft, ransomware, trojans, rootkits and more. The tighter control exercised over the Apple ecosystem makes Macs more secure, but cyberthreats are growing more sophisticated by the day. This is true for other well-known, prevalent software (hello Flash).Īntivirus software can also create a false sense of security as it can't stop unknown attacks (if there were any) or, separately, undocumented trojans until after the user has infected themselves.Why does your Mac need antivirus protection? I think what Dan is getting at is, if virus writers know a good deal of Mac users are using the same antivirus software, it gives them a more unified target because all they have to do is find an exploit for that software and, voila, they can infect numerous Macs. Certainly, in an article claiming people are spreading fear of OS X vulnerability, accusations like these shouldn't just be thrown out there.
However, this is a very serious accusation that really needs to be backed up by proof. Are you actually suggesting that installing Mac antivirus software makes users more vulnerable to attack? I can see how that could theoretically be possible if the antivirus software was poorly written security-wise.
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