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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="http://blogs.technet.com/utility/FeedStylesheets/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title>Musings of a Microsoft Security Advisor : Anti-Virus</title><link>http://blogs.technet.com/idubraws/archive/tags/Anti-Virus/default.aspx</link><description>Tags: Anti-Virus</description><dc:language>en-US</dc:language><generator>CommunityServer 2.1 SP1 (Build: 61025.2)</generator><item><title>Apple Finally Acknowledges Anti-Virus Software</title><link>http://blogs.technet.com/idubraws/archive/2008/12/02/apple-finally-acknowledges-anti-virus-software.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 02 Dec 2008 21:19:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d5e57398-b9ef-4490-9955-07cbb4e4a80d:3162933</guid><dc:creator>Ido Dubrawsky</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>http://blogs.technet.com/idubraws/comments/3162933.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://blogs.technet.com/idubraws/commentrss.aspx?PostID=3162933</wfw:commentRss><description>&lt;P&gt;Apple has finally acknowledged that running anti-virus software on a Mac is a &lt;EM&gt;good thing.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/EM&gt;&amp;nbsp; In a deeply buried knowledge-base &lt;A class="" title="Apple KB article" href="http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2550" target=_blank mce_href="http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2550"&gt;article&lt;/A&gt; Apple has come forward and stated:&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;"Apple encourages the widespread use of multiple antivirus utilities so that virus programmers have more than one application to circumvent, thus making the whole virus writing process more difficult."&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;It's interesting, however, to note that this information was not publicized very well and only came to light recently on PC World's &lt;A class="" title="PC World's Blog" href="http://www.pcworld.com/blogs.html" target=_blank mce_href="http://www.pcworld.com/blogs.html"&gt;blog&lt;/A&gt; today.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;img src="http://blogs.technet.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=3162933" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description><category domain="http://blogs.technet.com/idubraws/archive/tags/Security/default.aspx">Security</category><category domain="http://blogs.technet.com/idubraws/archive/tags/MacOS/default.aspx">MacOS</category><category domain="http://blogs.technet.com/idubraws/archive/tags/Apple/default.aspx">Apple</category><category domain="http://blogs.technet.com/idubraws/archive/tags/Anti-Virus/default.aspx">Anti-Virus</category></item></channel></rss>