Mcafee and Symantec already have such a small audience on the Mac end. Really the only reason to even have an antivirus package installed on an OSX machine is in the chance someone sends you an infected file, (which won't affect OSX), if you send the file to someone else, it helps to keep it from spreading to a windows based machine.
I think you missed the point of the article. McAfee's biggest gripe wasn't about being put out of business, it was the fact that an agreement held between them and Micro$oft allowing them access to the kernel wasn't being upheld. If you think that Vista is going to be secure, I believe you're mistaken. BTW aren't we still patching IE6? And these same people are going to keep the us secure? I think not.
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Didn't Wornstrom try this in a Futurama episode? Lessons learned I guess.
Mcafee and Symantec already have such a small audience on the Mac end. Really the only reason to even have an antivirus package installed on an OSX machine is in the chance someone sends you an infected file, (which won't affect OSX), if you send the file to someone else, it helps to keep it from spreading to a windows based machine.
I think you missed the point of the article. McAfee's biggest gripe wasn't about being put out of business, it was the fact that an agreement held between them and Micro$oft allowing them access to the kernel wasn't being upheld. If you think that Vista is going to be secure, I believe you're mistaken. BTW aren't we still patching IE6? And these same people are going to keep the us secure? I think not.