[for-q-clinton]

Most malware these days is based on social engineering; the operating system is not the primary vulnerability that it once was. As long as clueless users can be tricked into installing malware, it will continue to spread.

Completely agree. And as OSX is more widely used it will have more users to target. Windows7 is mostly social engineering Malware (or people trying to get free stuff). When Mac users do that...the macbots act as if it doesn't count. But they do count it when they talk about windows malware.

Macbots live with a double standard and their heads in the sand. All I'm trying to do is point out to them that everyone should use safe computing practices regardless of OS. And that includes having a 3rd party AV solution.

[B Knotts]

Well, anti-virus is a good idea, but it doesn’t protect against malware.

The only thing that will protect against that is not clicking on everything you see.

And, on Windows, regularly running MalwareBytes.