One of those risks is that somebody will get your password and drain your account. There is a risk to Web banking, of course. I run antivirus software on a computer that doesn’t need it to protect myself against a legal risk, not a technical one, since I use my Mac for Web banking. I’ve also recommended to my father that he run antivirus software on the Mac Mini that he has at his home. Nevertheless, I run antivirus software on my Apple MacBook laptop. I agree with Mossberg that antivirus software isn’t needed for the Mac today. On a new Mac, no third-party software is automatically launched when you start the computer, and you don’t need antivirus or antispyware programs because the Mac is essentially free from those menaces.” New Macs don’t have any craplets displayed on their desktops. “An excellent way to avoid or minimize the craplet problem is to simply buy an Apple Macintosh computer. For example, in today’s column about “craplet” software on new PCs, he writes,
Mossberg is fond of saying that Macintosh users don’t need antivirus software. Wall Street Journal tech columnist Walter S.
