The Wifey bought me a iPad air 32gb for Xmas , big surprise, do I need to have a Anti Virus on it, uses would be Surfing the web , e-mails and of course mbclub , photos . Will be taking on Holidays.
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Short answer, no.
Long answer, also no, is that due to the walled garden approach adopted by Apple, with curated App Store, segregated app filesystem access and tightly controlled inter-process communications, a traditional virus cannot replicate under iOS. In addition, iOS features a variety of security measures to minimise risks (strongly layered security model, certificate signing of apps, and centrally distributed threat detection signatures).
So, antivirus systems do not exist on iOS as: a) there are no successful viruses out there, and b) the traditional AV approach wouldn't work anyway (no way of accessing the full filesystem).
Makes you wonder why more OSes don't adopt the same security systems, doesn't it?
WOW !! now I am confused
As stated above, antivirus not really needed on IOS at the moment. Things may change with groups actively targeting apple products more and more.
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