macOS has a built in, invisible, Apple-maintained antivirus system called XProtect which works great and most people don’t even know exists.
Bad antivirus software is indeed terrible, but the good stuff is performant and invisible.
Bad antivirus software is indeed terrible, but the good stuff is performant and invisible.
Earlier this year it began detecting Apple-distributed iOS simulator bundles as malware and deleted those [0]. This was a major headache for several days as different headless CI systems developed the problem; we could not figure out how to get a 'good' version of XProtect installed in-place and ended up removing and rebuilding machines.
[0]: https://eclecticlight.co/2024/05/03/did-xprotect-remediator-...
> and most people don’t even know exists.
This part is for sure correct.