The only Mac viruses I've seen anywhere in the last 20 years have been MS Office macro viruses, and the three I've seen have been pretty pitiful. Even the currently popular ransomeware malware seem to install mostly as trojans, usually carried by phishing or spamming attacks.
There is Mac malware, just not a lot of it, mostly trojans, and mostly not out in the wild. There are no Mac _viruses_ _in the wild_. It has done more damage to Macs under my control than malware has over the last 20 years. Meanwhile, it is actively dangerous to run Norton AV: it eats system files and email. In that time I have seen Mac malware on other people's Macs, but only a few cases, less than a dozen all told. I have not seen Mac malware on one of my Macs in 20 years. In this particular case, a quick run past AV on Windows confirmed that it was malware and I nuked it.) Norton AV will detect Mac malware, but there's so little Mac malware (over 99% of all malware is for Windows, and another 0.4% is for Android) that most people are unlikely to ever see any real Mac malware. It's a good idea to show extensions, it really is. DOTM extension, that's a Word macro file and is almost certainly a macro virus, especially when the email it's attached to says that it's an invoice from Apple. (Hint: if you get an email with a file with a.
I have seen plenty of malware aimed at Windows I just killed two examples today, both served up in email, one a phish, one from spam. Meanwhile, I have not seen malware, of any type which could affect a Mac, on a Mac under my control. However, Norton AV has destroyed a system file, preventing a system from booting until the OS was reinstalled, and has destroyed email.
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