You might want to install an antivirus, even if it's not kept up to date, it's better than nothing. If your firewall ever gets disabled (by a game for example), you can quickly get a boot sector virus just by being plugged in to the internet. Granted, these things are nearly gone after service pack 1, but these could easily infect a computer without any user interaction. If the boot is messed up, you might not be able to boot into mac even! If anyone else knows more about this, or can correct me, please add to this. Click to expand.Popular Anti-Viruses such as Norton and McAfee can become infected and controlled by viruses.
Do I need antivirus for my Boot Camp partition? It has Windows Defender built in which a decent antivirus. Unless you plan on doing some sketchy web browsing. Jun 5, 2012 - Whether you're using Boot Camp, or a virutalization program like Parallels or VM Fusion, with Windows on your Mac, you'll need an antivirus program. It may or may not affect your Mac, but you could definitely spread it to those of your family, friends and co-workers that do have Windows.
Just like Jailbreaking the iPhone doesn't work when the Phone is updated. Viruses run amok until the Software is updated then the Developers start again. It's never-ending. In addition CCleaner and FCleaner work better than most Anti-Viruses, because most Viruses run around in Temporary Files which Disc Cleaner that comes with Windows 7 cannot delete, running C/FCleaner in Safe Mode deletes all Temporary Files, therefore most viruses. Popular Anti-Viruses such as Norton and McAfee can become infected and controlled by viruses. Just like Jailbreaking the iPhone doesn't work when the Phone is updated. Viruses run amok until the Software is updated then the Developers start again.
It's never-ending. In addition CCleaner and FCleaner work better than most Anti-Viruses, because most Viruses run around in Temporary Files which Disc Cleaner that comes with Windows 7 cannot delete, running C/FCleaner in Safe Mode deletes all Temporary Files, therefore most viruses. Click to expand.You are right that anti-virus programs can be hacked, but the conclusions you draw from that I do not agree with. First of all, any good AV program these days is tamper-resistant, so it can withstand many hack attempts. Secondly, there is absolutely no reason I can think of why a malware author would take control of the scanning function of an AV program then use it to run constant scans. Instead, they'd shut it off and use their newly won freedom for more malicious purposes, such as stealing passwords.