Universal Antivirus Put To Bed???

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In an article by Engadget (https://www.engadget.com/2017/09/15/apple-bans-misleading-apps-on-ios/?ncid=txtlnkusaolp00000618) they said:

"The ban is against apps "including content or services that it does not actually offer." As those fake antivirus apps don't actually work, they're definitely on this list."

There has always been a debate about iOS devices not needed protection. Most of these apps want to mine your data or sell you side services like backups.

Do we think they are including ALL ANTIVIRUS APPS or just the "FAKE" ones?

 

[chscag]

Since all antivirus apps for iOS are fake, I can imagine all will be excluded.

 

[RootBeerMan]

In all my years of using, servicing and selling Macs I have never seen a Mac virus that was in the wild and had any effect on a Mac. Anti-virus software was there and a waste of money. These days all I have seen is malware and most of it is relatively harmless. We can do without the anti-virus software, but the occasional malware scan would still be useful. Malwarebytes is free and reasonably useful. The rest are just money sucks.