Coming up on Hands on Tech, let's take a look at the age old at this time question about whether

we need to be using malware protection on our Macs. Stay tuned. This is Twit. Hello and welcome to Hands On Tech.

I am Micah Sargent.

And today we've got a question from Ron, who writes in to say this.

You gave me some great advice a few weeks ago regarding my about to be purchased Mac Mini.

I now have that Mac Mini and am happily using it, thanks in no small parts to you.

Ron, very glad to hear that. I hope you're still loving it even now after, you know, you sent in this

question. You say, a question just came up. Should I get a malware protection program?

I know that Macs are not targeted as much as Windows computers.

I also know that Leo is skeptical about these on the Windows platform. He points out that our

use of the computer is the chief way that problems occur. Do you think the same applies to the Mac?

If you think a malware program is a good idea, which one? So for those of you who are following along at home in the notes, you'll notice that I said,

I've got, oh, I'll have, you know, a lot to say about this.

First and foremost, yes.

What Leo has said in the past, what our wonderful Steve Gibson has said as well,

and what I also feel is the case is that first and

foremost, before anything else, your behavior on your machine is the chief way to keep yourself

from interacting with malware. Do you regularly download programs from random places? Do you go and

open email that has strange attachments and you're downloading PDFs that may have weird

links in them that you click on? Are there, is there more than just you're downloading PDFs that may have weird links in them that you click on.

Are there, is there more than just you using the machine?

You know, maybe you'll have somebody who doesn't have that same sort of security knowledge as you.

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