virex or norton antivirus?

Which antivirus program is best?

  • Virex

  • Norton Anti-virus

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OS X Jaguar
which one is best? Ive always preferred virex. but, the osX versions interface is pretty bad. NAV's interface looks better.

So, which is best? does it matter?

perhaps a poll admins? virex or NAV?
 
In my 18 years of owning Apple hardware, I've yet to come across a MACINTOSH virus. Personally, I think antivirus software is a waste of money for the Mac. Not enough people use Macs for there to be serious damage or propagation of a virus/worm. With OS X being UNIX-based, I think we have less to worry about.
 
Originally posted by chemistry_geek
In my 18 years of owning Apple hardware, I've yet to come across a MACINTOSH virus. Personally, I think antivirus software is a waste of money for the Mac. Not enough people use Macs for there to be serious damage or propagation of a virus/worm. With OS X being UNIX-based, I think we have less to worry about.
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Well, thats NOT the question. lol.

Ive used macs 12 yrs and I too have NEVER had a virus.

could it be cause ive always used antivirus programs, and kept them current? ????

20,000,000+ people use the mac. Im not taking any chances. and with osX, I would think the risk could be even greater? There are TONS of unix geeks out there.

my .02 worth.
 
Well, I have to go with NAV, basically for the auto-protect feature. And I did have a couple of files infected with the old classic Sevendust shortly after installing OS X 10.0.
Virex is not free, BTW. You gotta shell out $$ for .Mac in order to get it.
 
I can't even imagine that there are any known OS X viruses they could be looking for. The virus definitions could be symlinks to /dev/null for all we know. :-) But in seriousness, what are they checking for? Do they do heuristic analyses for malicious scripts and programs?
 
Virex does do heuristic analyses, if you select it in the preferences. I don't know about NAV (but I suspect it doesn't).
 
oh i know, thats why i said it comes "free" with .mac... ;)


Originally posted by genghiscohen
Well, I have to go with NAV, basically for the auto-protect feature. And I did have a couple of files infected with the old classic Sevendust shortly after installing OS X 10.0.
Virex is not free, BTW. You gotta shell out $$ for .Mac in order to get it.
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i've yet to come across a linux server/desktop machine that has any type of antivirus installed. Heh, I wouldn't bother with an antivirus program for any platform other than windows. :) But Norton is kaka..go with Virax :)
 
If you're running Classic, you still have a little vulnerability. Like I said, I actually got infected with the Sevendust virus in my Classic system folder shortly after installing 10.0, when I was surfing the Web "naked." :p
 
Originally posted by davidbrit2
I can't even imagine that there are any known OS X viruses they could be looking for. The virus definitions could be symlinks to /dev/null for all we know. :-) But in seriousness, what are they checking for? Do they do heuristic analyses for malicious scripts and programs?
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Like I said, with OS X, we have very little to worry about as far as virii are concerned. Nobody knows anything YET about what Apple tweaked in BSD UNIX. It's simply too new and constantly changing for anything (virii/worms) to grab a hold of. Besides, what's it going to do? Format my hard drive? THAT requires administrative access, and UNIX is bullet-proof, for the most part. UNIX/BSD/Linux is built on 40 year old technology, all the bugs have been worked out.
 
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