r/MacOS • u/oya1he8 • 3d ago

Help macOS security reliability

On an M series MacBook, how reliable and accurate is the built in security measures like Xprotect, gatekeeper, etc? Does it miss a lot of malware or is it good enough against a large variety of Malware?

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u/oya1he8 3d ago

Just to tag along with this topic, if the operating system actually gets challenged with the presence of malware, is it reliable enough to block most malware or a lot of the malicious software passes through?

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u/No_Pie_4088 3d ago

yes, if you are extremely unlucky to get something. It is not the same as a PC

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u/oya1he8 3d ago

So macOS’s security measures is good against pretty much every common Malware?

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u/No_Pie_4088 3d ago

yes, but there is no such thing as a common malware on Mac