But not the 1 in 5 the misleading headline implies. IOW, the vast majority of malware on Macs is Windows malware. And this makes you feel good? For a long time, the main reason to run AV on a Mac was to be a good neighbor, filtering out Windows malware from reaching your Windows friends. This appears to still be the case.
I didn’t write the headline, besides we should know by now the headlines are often very misleading. That’s being a conservative 101 type thing.
But who said it makes me feel good? The truth is that these macs are probably running XP a decade old OS. If they ran win7 they’d be a lot better off. Plus for OSX malware to not exist where does it get the 2.7% to download from?