Malwarebytes strives to proactively detect and block all Mac malware, providing additional protection against the worst threats that exist on the Mac. Multiple layers of protection are always recommended by security experts.

There is some basic anti-malware protection built into macOS, but it's not perfect and doesn't catch everything. Now Malwarebytes doesn't just clean up your Mac, it protects it too! Introducing Malwarebytes for Macīecause of these changes to the Mac threat landscape, we have released Malwarebytes for Mac, which includes real-time protection. Go to any Mac forum these days and it won't take you five minutes to find someone suffering from some kind of malicious threat.

Adware and PUPs are increasing at an even higher rate, with even the Mac App Store suffering a tidal wave of scam software. Worse, that only tells a small part of the story. Thus far, as of early July 2017, there has been an increase of 230% in Mac malware over last year, and this year is only half over. Since around 2012, Macs have seen a huge upswing in all manner of threats - malware (including spyware, keyloggers, backdoors, and more), adware, and potentially unwanted programs (PUPs). Unfortunately, that has begun to change in recent years.

The only reason the myth that Macs can't get infected with malware has persisted is that, until recently, malware has been fairly rare. The switch to a completely new architecture in Mac OS X, in 2001, killed all the old 'Classic' Mac malware, but it didn't take long for more to start appearing, starting with the MW2004 trojan a few years later. Some of the earliest malware affected the first Macs in the mid-1980s. The first widespread virus was the Elk Cloner virus, which actually infected the Apple II, prior to any PC malware. There has almost always been malware for the Mac. Unfortunately, this old 'wisdom' has never been true. Now, on a different topic, can you tell me why Safari is going to a Russian search engine instead of Google? And I keep getting pop-ups telling me to 'clean your Mac from junk!' Mac threat landscape Wow, that's so cool! It's good to know we're all safe. Even Apple said so, in their famous Get a Mac ads that aired a decade ago.

Mac users have been told for years: Macs don't get viruses.

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