Thanks for the post. There really is no need for anti-virus on a Mac as long as you do not disable the built-in protection. Even then, you have to be pretty stupid to get infected.
I have a side business writing apps for the Apple Mac and iTunes stores. I have also written and sold Windows software for 25 years, I still do, but most of my business income comes from Apple.
For decades, I have had to keep constant monitoring of my Windows installations to make sure I was up-to-date on AV etc. Adware was the worst. Mac OS X? Nada.
iOS, not jail broken? Please, all the recent hype sounds as if it was written by Google evangelists. Nada, zip on iOS...
You are right about this one. . . IF a concatenation of unlikely events occurs, a so-called "vulnerability" in OSX and IOS could allow an app to be installed. WHOW! That vulnerability is that a computing device can install an app! Who'd a thunk it? And, you have to be stupid and turn off every security protection provided so that app to can be installed from an untrusted source that has not been checked for safety. More brain dead zombie stupidity. So, not being checked, that app may not only not be safe accidentally, it might be deliberate malicious! Run and shout, scare the rubes!
(In fact, anyone who'd fall for this would be safe from zombies; they want brains!)
Samsung is bleeding both market share and profit share yet their marketing budget of $14 billion in the cellphone area has not been reduced an iota. Their media buys are no where near that figure. They pay a lot out in FUD spreaders. . . and I would not be surprised to learn that they sponsor research in hacking iOS to spread negative reports. Their CEO is a twice convicted criminal. . . fraud, tax evasion, and other crimes. . . but Samsung's political pull is so great in Korea he gets Pardoned. Samsung's business model is theft of intellectual property. . . so I would not put this past them.
Microsoft invented the Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt (FUD) technique of marketing back in the '80s and '90s and perfected it, paying pundits, posters, and bloggers to post negative commentary about their competitors in concentrated campaigns. Samsung and Google are continuing the practice. Some who have received the payments have spoken out revealing the practice. I've been accused of it on Apple's behalf although it is untrue.