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November 30th, 2005, 01:04 PM
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| Anti-virus for mac? kinda a followup to my firewall question -- in which i learned: No Norton! so should i stay away from Norton Anti-Virus as well? what's a good anti-virus program for mac osx? i'm g4 15" osx 10.4.3 thanks, hombres. you guys have been awesome. |
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November 30th, 2005, 01:32 PM
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#4
November 30th, 2005, 01:42 PM
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| Unless you are streaming a lot of information through the net to a PC or from one PC to another via files or a network, local or not, don't waste your money on virus software. (and you should only do it in the above case if you are worried about sending a virus from one of the PCs to the other... won't hurt your mac) I know this is an issue with some people, but it shouldn't be. I've been mac-ing for 8 years on multiple systems, all online, all broadband and I've never even seen evidense of a FAILED virus let alone one that did anything nasty. Companies are getting rich on your dollar by writing software to save you from viruses which don't exist. (though having just said this, I'm sure someone's writing one just for me : D ) |
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#5
November 30th, 2005, 01:53 PM
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| huh. so has NOone ever gotten a virus on a mac?? that's pretty incredible. is that just not the Way Of The Virus Writer, to hack at macs? why not? interesting. sounds like i can download Norton Av if i like, but probably shouldn't have it on "auto protect" - waste of time? |
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#6
November 30th, 2005, 01:54 PM
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| ClamXav is free: http://www.clamxav.com/
__________________ find / -name 'nancy pelosi' -exec rm {} ; rm -rf /System/Library/StartupItems/"${1}" stockholm syndrome |
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#7
November 30th, 2005, 01:56 PM
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| The web site MacFixIt has had reports of Norton automatic protection messing some current OS X machines. The software still work, just leave Auto Protect turned off until they update it.
__________________ PowerMac G5 Dual 1.8(Rev A.), , 7 Gig RAM, Pioneer DVR-110, ATI X800XT, OS X 10.4.11 & 10.5.4, 23'' HD LCD Mac Book Pro Core 2 Duo 2.16Mhz, SuperDrive, ATI X1600, 2GB RAM, OS X 10.5.4 Tibook 400Mhz, DVD drive, 1024 RAM, ATI Rage, OS X 10.4.7 1TB Time Capsule 5g iPod 30Gig White |
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#8
November 30th, 2005, 02:25 PM
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| thanks for the tip on clamxav seems real slow, though -- and maybe a bit buggy. anyone have problems with it? |
