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Originally Posted by Prestidigitweeze
While Sregener's idea that virus protection is unnecessary with Macs seems wildly idealistic, I'm inclined to feel skeptical about your comment that Chrome has sufficient "defense built in from the ground up." If you have a moment, would you mind being a bit more specific?
Certainly, I've found the opposite to be true of Android. Using the free antivirus utility ClamXav to scan my MacBook Pro and attached storage media (which I do regularly), I've only ever found viruses in backups and mSD cards from my Android devices. What's more, said viruses have only infected apps downloaded from the Play Store directly. I've encountered those infected files using both Froyo and Jellybean over the past few years. (And here I thought I'd vetted my apps and chosen only safe ones!)
How is Chrome different in that respect? Doesn't it use the Play Store, too?
I'd also like more details on the "sandboxed" aspects of Chrome, since I have friends whose Google accounts were hijacked shortly after they bought Android smartphones.
I hope you'll keep in mind that my questions are not anti-Google, since every smartphone I've owned for the past four years has used the Android OS.
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Assume part of answer is Chrome updated every new load.
Also assume Google has best list bad sites and viruses.