Nope. Those programs are more trouble than help far too often.
Nope. Those programs are more trouble than help far too often.Do you maintain antivirus software on your computer?
That was my reaction to them, too. So when Apple came out with an OS founded on an industrial-strength operating system - Unix - I was pleased to count on that rather than on a band-aid stuck on a toy OS, which is what DOS and Windows were in comparison. I knew that Unix was designed for multitasking and multiuser operation fro the ground up, so it was inherently more robust. My experience was that I, as a user not an administrator, was so sensitive to the vulnerability of Windows that I became easily phished. I was NOT amused.So I just made it a policy to run an up-to-date version of OS X. And to see if Apple could deliver the robustness I was looking for. I’ve been doing that since shortly after OS X came out, and my luck is holding pretty well so far. Just bought my third iMac - and altho it took an hour to read my Time Machine external disk, that was all it took, and I’m in business with a 5K - for $2500 a new computer, and about as nice a desktop monitor as money will buy. My daughter even loves the hand-me-down.
I like to think I deserve it, once every ten years or so! :-)