Snow Leopard features hidden antivirus function

If you own a Mac, you have probably heard by now that the new OS X, Snow Leopard, is going to be shipping on Friday the 28th. If you don’t, then you might want to climb out from under that rock and take in all the excitement.

While it’s not out yet, testers have been out in full force fiddling around with Apple’s new operating system and today they apparently have made quite the discovery. Hidden within Snow Leopard is some sort of antimalware feature that detects harmful things trying to infect your computer.

Basically, it acts like a normal antivirus tool, weeding out the bad stuff but it also has those normal pop-up warning about opening documents. The interesting part is that it runs completely invisible on the operating system, running in the background while you do your thing. It’s a little bit odd that there really hasn’t been any mention of this whatsoever in previous previews of Snow Leopard but hey, having it isn’t necessarily a bad thing.