{"id":239,"date":"2011-04-30T12:59:43","date_gmt":"2011-04-30T12:59:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paulgurney.com\/whats_new_blog\/?p=239"},"modified":"2011-05-25T04:20:43","modified_gmt":"2011-05-25T04:20:43","slug":"security-for-mac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paulgurney.com\/whats_new_blog\/2011\/04\/security-for-mac\/","title":{"rendered":"Security for Mac"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Mac OS X Security \u2014 Urgency is Growing for Protection<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A client of ours, CHEN PR, handles the PR and social media strategy for Sophos. This is how we came across their free antivirus software for Mac.<\/p>\n<p>As an all-Mac shop since we began in 1996, PDG &amp; Associates has never used or needed antivirus software. For various reasons the Mac was not an easy or viable target for malware writers. But with Apple&#8217;s rising dominance in the computer industry <del>perhaps<\/del> it&#8217;s time to batten down the hatches!<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"sophos antivirus for mac\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sophos.com\/en-us\/products\/free-tools\/sophos-antivirus-for-mac-home-edition.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Read a blog post by Sophos<\/a>. Sophos created a free, award-winning antivirus program for Mac OS X.<\/p>\n<p>Another columnist at ZDNET writes persuasively about the urgent need to prepare for the coming tide of malware. Read the <a title=\"malware-for-macs-is-on-way\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/blog\/bott\/why-malware-for-macs-is-on-its-way\/3243?pg=2#\" target=\"_blank\">article<\/a> <em>Why malware for Macs is on its way<\/em>&#8230; by Ed Bott on May 5, 2011.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_342\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-342\" style=\"width: 164px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/paulgurney.com\/whats_new_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Picture-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-342\" title=\"free Sophos Mac Antivirus Software\" src=\"https:\/\/paulgurney.com\/whats_new_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Picture-1.png\" alt=\"free Sophos Mac Antivirus Software\" width=\"164\" height=\"52\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-342\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">free Sophos Mac Antivirus Software<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mac OS X Security \u2014 Urgency is Growing for Protection A client of ours, CHEN PR, handles the PR and social media strategy for Sophos. This is how we came across their free antivirus software for Mac. As an all-Mac shop since we began in 1996, PDG &amp; Associates has never used or needed antivirus &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/paulgurney.com\/whats_new_blog\/2011\/04\/security-for-mac\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Security for Mac&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers-mac","category-security"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p415hC-3R","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulgurney.com\/whats_new_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulgurney.com\/whats_new_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulgurney.com\/whats_new_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulgurney.com\/whats_new_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulgurney.com\/whats_new_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/paulgurney.com\/whats_new_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":343,"href":"https:\/\/paulgurney.com\/whats_new_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239\/revisions\/343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulgurney.com\/whats_new_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulgurney.com\/whats_new_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulgurney.com\/whats_new_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}