Security and the Net

Apple has just removed the article recommending the use of anti-virus software from their homepage. Does that mean you don’t have to worry about viruses infecting your Mac?

Heise notes that Apple is now officially recommending the use of anti-virus software on MacOS X. In Apple’s their own words:
Apple encourages the widespread use of multiple antivirus utilities so that virus programmers have more than one application to circumvent, thus making the whole virus writing process more difficult. 
It’s pretty tempting, but I’ll leave the [...]

Just as I was writing this post with positive news for AVG users, I was notified about this article at the Register that mentions that AVG is now also detecting non-existing viruses in Adobe Flash: 
AVG, the popular anti-virus package, has falsely identified Adobe Flash as potentially malicious. The snafu comes just days after AVG slapped [...]

Important note: be sure to read all the way down to the end of the article for the latest updates. Since publishing this article, AVG has offered a free license to all affected users; more about that here. 
An update for the AVG virus scanner released yesterday contained an incorrect virus signature, which led it to [...]