sophos here, and people saying you don’t need it are just idiots. we have a nice collection of public and private osx malware in the office and all the latest crome/java/firefox exploits have been rolled into the broswer attack kit’s like blackhole.
yep
And how do you know that with no AV?
No slow down, no random emails being sent (all email is gmail), no extra software being installed, blah blah blah.
I’ve been running Macs since 1991 and never had a problem with one other than a lightening strike taking out the modem port on one (yeah modems remember them… maybe not).
I wish I could say the same of the PCs in my office.
Edit: here’s a decent article
And I forgot to add that all our computers sit behind a hardware firewall (Sonicwall in our case and not just the limited firewall within the router.)
You can buy used firewalls on eBay for about £30-40 and add a very good layer of protection but there is some configuring to do which would not suit many people. Just replaced one as the internal fan had gone and I just paid £5 for one that is £250 new.
Sorry but that’s just not right. A firewall is no protection against library bugs, browser bugs etc, and neither is running a non-admin account. Key loggers and so on can run perfectly well using a normal account with absolutely no outwardly visible signs.