It turns out that Apples advice for Mac users to run anti-virus software is not new advice at all. If you dig around the internet archives Wayback machine at web.archive.org, you can find evidence that Apple originally published this advice in a slightly different form as far back as June 2007. Naked Security reporter Graham Cluley: ‘Im sorry for not realising this myself when I wrote about whether you really need anti-Virus on your Mac on the blog yesterday'”]
Source: https://grahamcluley.com/apples-viruses-and-internet-snowballs/