{"id":1732,"date":"2025-09-24T11:01:23","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T11:01:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.valentinedaysgifts.com\/?p=1732"},"modified":"2025-10-09T10:19:31","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T10:19:31","slug":"do-you-need-third-party-anti-virus-software-on-a-mac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.valentinedaysgifts.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/24\/do-you-need-third-party-anti-virus-software-on-a-mac\/","title":{"rendered":"Do you need third-party anti-virus software on a Mac?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"feat-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2025\/09\/Do-you-need-third-party-anti-virus-software-on-a-Mac.jpg?quality=82&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1600\"><\/div>\n<p>For many years, it was accepted wisdom that <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/guides\/malware\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Mac malware<\/a> wasn\u2019t really an issue. One of the reasons for that was that the market share was simply too low to make it a worthwhile target for attackers.<\/p>\n<p>Today, of course, is a very different world. <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/guides\/mac\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Macs<\/a> are the <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2024\/07\/09\/mac-shipments-2024\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">fourth most popular brand<\/a> of personal computers, and as owners of a premium brand, Mac owners make a juicy target. Does that mean you need third-party antivirus software on a Mac, or are the built-in <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/guides\/security\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">security<\/a> protections good enough? A very thorough test sought to find out \u2026<\/p>\n<p> <a data-layer-pagetype=\"post\" data-layer-postcategory=\"mac,malware,privacy,security\" data-layer-viewtype=\"taxonomy-ninetofive_guides\" data-post-id=\"1021065\" href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2025\/09\/24\/do-you-need-third-party-anti-virus-software-on-a-mac\/#more-1021065\" class=\"more-link\">more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For many years, it was accepted wisdom that Mac malware wasn\u2019t really an issue. One of the reasons for that was that the market share <a href=\"http:\/\/www.valentinedaysgifts.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/24\/do-you-need-third-party-anti-virus-software-on-a-mac\/\" class=\"read-more-link\">[Read More&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1734,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mac"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.valentinedaysgifts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.valentinedaysgifts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.valentinedaysgifts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.valentinedaysgifts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.valentinedaysgifts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1732"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.valentinedaysgifts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1733,"href":"http:\/\/www.valentinedaysgifts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1732\/revisions\/1733"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.valentinedaysgifts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.valentinedaysgifts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.valentinedaysgifts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.valentinedaysgifts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}