I will say that these highly publicized security stories are mostly click-bait. I'm not going to tell you what you should or shouldn't do. It would take Symantec several months before it would work properly on the (then) current version of macOS. When I worked for the government, I had to use Symantec's enterprise-class antivirus product, which people said was much better than their Norton-branded consumer product. Since these types of apps have such low-level hooks into the operating system, they are very sensitive to changes. But even though they are legitimate, they are notorious for causing system slowdowns, kernel panics, and corrupting legitimate files. Some of the more well-known ones like ClamXAV and Norton are definitely legitimate. Unfortunately, many Mac antivirus products these days are outright scams. People also recommend my own app, EtreCheck, but technically it isn't an antivirus app. Even that is more problematic than it used to be because it also uses a kernel extension now. The only true antivirus that anyone here on Apple Support Communities will recommend is MalwareBytes.
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