{"id":48,"date":"2019-12-31T16:24:11","date_gmt":"2019-12-31T23:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pacificezsoft.com\/?p=48"},"modified":"2020-03-19T11:33:20","modified_gmt":"2020-03-19T18:33:20","slug":"do-macs-need-anti-virus-protection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pacificezsoft.com\/?p=48","title":{"rendered":"Do Mac&#8217;s and PC&#8217;s need Anti-Virus Protection?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">YES! If you are connected to the Internet, I would recommend an antivirus program for both Mac &amp; PC.  An antivirus is not a panacea. Be paranoid, many individuals are using social engineering to fool us into clicking things that will compromise our computer. That cute puppy picture you click may make a big mess!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There are many antivirus programs to choose from, look at the comparisons and reviews for a paid subscription.  My choice is Bitdefender which protects both Mac&#8217;s and PC&#8217;s. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bitdefender.com\/\">https:\/\/www.bitdefender.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>YES! If you are connected to the Internet, I would recommend an antivirus program for both Mac &amp; PC. An antivirus is not a panacea. Be paranoid, many individuals are<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn button-secondary\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pacificezsoft.com\/?p=48\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anti-virus"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pacificezsoft.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pacificezsoft.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pacificezsoft.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pacificezsoft.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pacificezsoft.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.pacificezsoft.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":273,"href":"https:\/\/www.pacificezsoft.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions\/273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pacificezsoft.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pacificezsoft.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pacificezsoft.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}