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Apple quietly recommends using antivirus software
Macworld — ... last month. The note was first spotted by The Washington Post . Apple’s position—while prudent—undercuts its popular advertising campaign which anthropomorphized PCs running Windows as an ...

Apple updates antivirus version numbers, security savants lose grip on reality
The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) — ... " and "Mac OS X" approach each other in the blogosphere, the usual outcome is more heat than light. The current example of keyboards outpacing brainwaves has emerged from a storm of posts on various sites, mostly tracing back to security analyst/Washington Post writer Brian Krebs and ...

Mac Users: Please Take a Quick Survey About Security
Technologizer — macvirus1 There’s been a bit of a kerfuffle this week about a subject that crops up every so often and is a reliable conversation starter: Whether Mac users should be as proactive about protecting themselves against security attacks as their Windows-using friends. The Washington Post’s Brian Krebs noticed Apple recommending the use of anti-virus software and tried to reconcile that advice with the ...

Apple Confirms Antivirus Software Is (Usually) Unnecessary
TidBITS: Mac News for the Rest of Us — ... At first, no one really noticed. Then, on 01-Dec-08, the note gained the attention of Brian Krebs at the Washington Post, who wondered if this statement signified a notable shift in Apple policy. Apple has never formally recommended third party security software for Mac OS X, so what was responsible for this seemingly major shift in policy? The rest of the industry press and blogs quickly picked up on the story, filling the Internet with a storm of conjecture and, based on the number of questions we received here at TidBITS, concern among Mac users wondering if they were ...

The Macalope Weekly: Virus protection, awesome business ideas, and fishy litigation
MacUser — ... Apple Recommends Passive/Aggressive Virus Support What’s the holidays without a little passive/aggressiveness from the family? Well, you got it over the past week. First the Washington Post’s Brian Krebs noticed an update to an old technical note that suggested Mac users use virus protection, which he says Apple “quietly published.” What, is there supposed to white smoke and a parade of a hundred circus clowns when a technical note update gets pushed out to the web site? Krebs found this tiny bit of an obscure technical note odd, as he got a different story from Apple ...

The Macalope Weekly: Virus protection, awesome business ideas, and fishy litigation
Macworld — ... Apple Recommends Passive/Aggressive Virus Support What’s the holidays without a little passive/aggressiveness from the family? Well, you got it over the past week. First the Washington Post’s Brian Krebs noticed an update to an old technical note that suggested Mac users use virus protection, which he says Apple “quietly published.” What, is there supposed to white smoke and a parade of a hundred circus clowns when a technical note update gets pushed out to the web site? Krebs found this tiny bit of an obscure technical note odd, as he got a different story from Apple ...