Ask HN: Is no anti-virus software still best practice for mac?

Just checking in on the community. I haven't found anything that suggests I should change my best-practices of not running and not suggesting others run anti-virus packages on their MacOS machines.

Is this still best-practice in the wider community?

I don't run traditional antivirus but I do run:

https://objective-see.com/products/blockblock.html (free) Detects when software attempts to install itself to run at startup and lets you block the registration.

https://www.obdev.at/products/littlesnitch/index.html (paid) detects, reports, blocks applications connecting to the internet.

https://adguard.com/en/welcome.html (paid) High quality adblocker for safari.

Well MacOS (an Windows) have built-in ones. MacOS has XProtect between other things like app signing.

Also note that for Spectre and Meltdown 3rd party antivir had kernel patches delayed as they can become sort of an issue.

Have one but never needed it so far - or it didn't catch the virii ;)

I use bitdefender at least it's quite unobtrusive on mac (sick of the windows version!). Sophos is free and afaik not too bad if you need one: https://home.sophos.com/free-mac-antivirus

Further I use: - https://objective-see.com/products/knockknock.html - https://objective-see.com/products/oversight.html - https://objective-see.com/products/blockblock.html

and Little Snitch - https://www.obdev.at/products/littlesnitch/index.html

and Firefox with - https://github.com/gorhill/uMatrix - https://github.com/gorhill/ublock

Hope that keeps the pest away ;)