{"id":667,"date":"2025-09-24T11:01:23","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T11:01:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emilykristine.com\/?p=667"},"modified":"2025-10-08T06:54:47","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T06:54:47","slug":"do-you-need-third-party-anti-virus-software-on-a-mac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emilykristine.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 src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/emilykristine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Do-you-need-third-party-anti-virus-software-on-a-Mac.jpg\"><\/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 was simply too low to make it a worthwhile target for attackers. Today, of course, is a very different world. Macs are the fourth most popular brand of personal computers, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":669,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilykristine.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilykristine.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilykristine.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilykristine.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilykristine.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=667"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/emilykristine.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":670,"href":"https:\/\/emilykristine.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667\/revisions\/670"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilykristine.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilykristine.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilykristine.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilykristine.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}