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#81
June 19th, 2005, 08:40 PM
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| I had Virex before. I stopped using it because it was killing my CPU and not Tiger-ready.
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#82
June 20th, 2005, 08:50 AM
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| Virex 7.6 does kill the cpu, I took it straight off, but Virex 7.2 is okay, I now use that and have no problems with it. |
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#83
June 20th, 2005, 01:07 PM
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| I wouldn't flame anyone for using a Mac antivirus program. But, as I understand it, there are NO Mac viruses that affect OS X. The pre-OS X viruses would require Classic if they worked at all. And they'd have to be well behaved (no protected memory violations, for example) or they'd crash and burn. Does anyone have experience with pre-OS X viruses in OS X? As far as Word macro viruses, well, don't use the macro unless it's from a trusted source. And Word is set for macro virus protection by default. I haven't run antivirus software since I sold my Compaq _four_ years ago. And I haven't used anti-spyware software for the Mac at all. Anyone know the best anti-spyware software for OS X? (wink, wink, just a joke) Doug
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#84
June 20th, 2005, 01:12 PM
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| and now it's $200 only program, as .mac doesn't support it anymore, officially
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#85
June 22nd, 2005, 05:01 AM
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| Here's some more detailed information. There have been viruses on Unix, however, due to the restrictions, viruses on Unix are far less possible. http://cybersoft.com/whitepapers/pap...rks_print.html http://cybersoft.com/whitepapers/pap...sibility.shtml
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#86
June 23rd, 2005, 07:35 AM
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| I used to run Virex 7 on start-up, but after a year of habitually quitting it as soon as I logged in, and only bothering to get the definitions about once every three months, I figured I might as well remove it. I remember once it found one suspicious object and I looked it up and it was about as worrying as being threatened with a water pistol. |
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#87
June 23rd, 2005, 08:49 PM
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| I used Virex on OS9 and it kept crashing Eudora so I gave up. As for reasons of having AntiVirus apps to protect Windogs friends when forwarding email is a point. I am lucky as my ISP is covering that with their own antivirus scanning for incoming and outgoing mail. But I guess they've probably over looked scanning any MacOS files but couldn't really say if they do or not. (I should ask them I guess) A Windogs traitor friend keeps telling me if Microslop losses the market and Apple and Linux takes the leed, then we'll be the targets. (it's one of those PC's are easier to get parts for arguments, never ending thing) But anyhow we seem to have more control of what can happen to our computers. Anything that wants installing or unstuffing, it needs our permissions first. And that's cheaper then buying a $200 a year subscribtion to antivirus programs. So in the long run PC's are disadvantaged in that way. But to deny a Mac Virus is not right. It's possible and the most damage it could do is the system, and that's why we have system install discs isn't it? To recover from system damage and how long does it take to reinstall? Not long aye. You could download a legit program from macupdate or somewhere and it may cause havoc in your sytem so you simply remove it. So any Virus, as long as you can locate it, you could move that too. I love the Mac in it's many easy ways of not spending hours fixing problems like those "other" computer users do. It wasn't important for me to update from 10.4 to 10.4.1 immediately, but XP users they run to the update page as soon as they've done a reinstall to get their security patches and updates and then their antivirus and spyware apps. I did my Tiger update when I wasn't doing much else on the net Well that's my 2 cents
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#88
July 5th, 2005, 06:09 PM
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| I personally dont think there is much of a point using antivirus on a Mac just yet. I'm a PC user and only really started using antivirus in '2000 when things really started to spread. Until there are enough Mac viruses floating around, I wouldnt bother. Also for Sirstaunch, I have to say that I've been using a G3 B&W as my second box for some time...had OS9 and then I went to 10.2 then 10.3 and now its up to 10.3.9. I have to say that I actually find maintaining a windows box and repairing any problems easier. Usually for me, any repairing might have to do with a Word Template problem... or possibly a Codec problem but never the system itself. I think as long as one knows how to use the computer (what ever platform) well, then you can take care of any problems fairly easily as well. |
