Macintosh Virus risk?

How big a risk is it?

My folks had trouble with A recent macupdate causing folders closing by themselves, apparently related to quicktime. The repair man fixed it but insists on installing norton antivirus when ever they have problems.
I’m not convinced. especially as most of their issues are caused by themselves and usually resolved with a restart or tracking down an unintentional folder move.

When ever I had norton in the past it only caused me grief, is it prudent to install or not worth bothering about?

thanks

(dammit how’s it gone in the bike bit i was in chat? sorry)

Never had any virus trouble with macs and been using them about 10years

I don’t bother, and don’t recommend people to either.

There was a trojan around a few weeks ago hidden in pirated copies of iWork ’09 and Adobe CS4 that had been downloaded from torrent sites. It only got installed onto peoples systems because the user input their admin password as they normally would when installing legal copies of the same software.

So unless your folks are downloading cracked apps, there’s not much to worry about 😉

Norton isn’t a good idea, and the last time I had a problem with a virus on a Mac was around ’95, with a Worm hidden in Photoshop files. No issues since, so far as I’m aware.