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Ask HN: Do you use an antivirus on your mac dev machine?

3 points by aufreak3 ↗ HN
I've not been using one for ages and have had no visible problems. Of course, I don't know about the problems I can't see. So I thought it right to ask you all, since many of you use macbookpros as your dev machine, going by what I read.

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geuis
Nope. I even disabled the one at work that was installed by IT. Slow as fuck.
aufreak3
Whoops. I got trojans on my company win7 dev machine! So I decided against doing it despite the slow down. Besides, our users run our software on such machines with antivirus software and I just accepted to live like them :)
mahmud
First thing I do with a new machine is remove anti-virus crap.
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[dead] WozRocks
The most amazing symptom of the surge in popularity of macs is all these windows people showing up thinking they should be running anti-virus software!

You don't need it, and you can now relax. Just have software update set to run and install all the security updates it suggests, and you're good.

fnl
nope - I want to work on my machine - same reason why I don't know how to use Windows :)
alanthonyc
I got one as part of a discount bundle of software that I bought once (MacHeist or something like that). I've used it twice, just out of curiosity. The first time, it found some malicious cookies. The second time, nothing.

That's over two years on the same machine.