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Just had a thought - I’d imagine more people are scammed by “You have 3 viruses on computer” pop-ups than would be better off with a visible warning from macOS for background detections.

Perhaps apple made the (reasonable) decision to not alert people to background detection/remediations so as to not get users used to such alerts?



How about this alternative explanation: Apple is very concerned about its perception in public and doesn't want user to see that their OS has quite a malware issue.

A lot of Apple users still believe that macOS is superiors when it comes to security. But reality looks more like:

https://in.mashable.com/tech/11411/sorry-mac-owners-a-new-re...

No news:

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/blog/2009/mar/20/brow...


Good point. There is a cottage industry of scams running fake Windows virus alerts.


They often show a "Mac version" of those for MacOS users. It doesn't matter much that the warning doesn't exist in the system. They're not targeting people who know that.




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