My first iMac - must provide advice on Protection antivirus and backup please

Hi all

So after 30 years of use of windows pc I finally had my first iMac

I am pleasantly satisfied how the iMac is easy to use although I have a few questions noob:

1 / I have to install anti-virus on my iMac software? one of the reasons why I chose the Mac is because of its superior security, but I still have to form any antivirus, and if yes what do you recommend?

2 / the iMac has it built in the hard disk recovery partition? I have not been invited to do a backup am so that a little worried if everything should go pear shaped I wouldn't have a backup to restore. If not, should I create a backup and how would I go about this?

Thank you very much

Luke

Luke, no protection against the virus. Is the same for the cleaning of the apps and most of the other third-party utilities. Maintain OSX and using good sense practical computer course and you will be fine. Watch where you click.

For backups Time Machine from Apple is better IMO.  Get an external hard drive 2 to 3 times the size of your internal drive and let Time Machine is something. The first backup may take a while, but subsequent backups occur every hour in the background. you won't know what is going on. The end Pondini can be your guide for all time Machine http://pondini.org/TM/FAQ.html

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