How to scan for a virus on the Mac

How to scan for a virus on the Mac

Ever since computers became a mainstream device for homes and offices, there has been a steady rise of malware and virus, developed by some not so great elements in the society, that share the intention of causing problems to devices of unsuspecting users, or do worse to organizations.

Windows-based PCs have been at risk from virus attacks, which led to a sort of revolution of “anti-virus” software, that promised to cleanse your PC of all existing virus and also keep it safe from future attacks. While this was well and good for a few years, certain exposes led to the conclusion that some of this anti-virus software was actually injecting a virus into the system and cleaning it to show that something was going on.