APE Design Ctr Posted March 29, 2007 Share Posted March 29, 2007 Anyone have any experience with decent anti virus software for mac that doesnt affect VW in a negative way? Thanks Quote Link to comment
LarryAZ Posted March 29, 2007 Share Posted March 29, 2007 Have you or anyone you know ever had a virus in OSX? Quote Link to comment
islandmon Posted March 29, 2007 Share Posted March 29, 2007 In over 20 yrs ... never had a virus...did a lot of searching with Norton & others ... always nothing ! CrossMyFingersHopeToDieStickAThousandsNeedlesInMyEye Quote Link to comment
PeterT Posted March 29, 2007 Share Posted March 29, 2007 We use Sophos anti-virus with no negative effects. We have never had a virus on our Macs either, but think it is wise to be safe. Quote Link to comment
Christiaan Posted March 29, 2007 Share Posted March 29, 2007 Virus protection is a good idea in terms of the whole internet ecosystem. Macs may not have a working virus to speak of (yet) but, one, that doesn't mean they won't and, two, it doesn't mean they can't pass them on. My advice would be to try out an application called ClamAV (or ClamXav for Mac OS X): http://www.clamxav.com/ Apple actually uses it in its own mail server software. The beauty of it is that it's open source so you have a whole army of people updating their virus definition library (often much faster than any for-profit company). The only downside I've heard of is that it can run a little slow when scanning, but I've never used it regularly and haven't tried it for quite some time so it might be quite a bit faster these days. On yeah, and it's free, being Free Software and all. Quote Link to comment
matto Posted March 30, 2007 Share Posted March 30, 2007 Having tried several bad choices with Virus software, i would suggest that all are more trouble than worth. That said we do have filtering(virus/spam) on the email channel. Quote Link to comment
Ole Posted March 30, 2007 Share Posted March 30, 2007 I use intego Virus Barrier X4 on 20 macs and have never had any problems in the two years i have used it. Better safe than sorry. Quote Link to comment
Petri Posted March 30, 2007 Share Posted March 30, 2007 Have you or anyone you know ever had a virus in OSX? I have a very bad flu right now, despite the Mac OS X. Computer viruses on the Mac? Well, there was something going around in the early 1990s, I think. Oh yeah, and then there was this Word macro virus maybe 8 or 10 years ago. Of course the anti-virus software companies would like us to believe otherwise, but in reality at the moment there is no need to have protection agains non-existing & undetected viruses. The software can't protect you against something it does not know about. When a virus is discovered and detected, then go shopping. Whatever you buy today is not going to be of any help; OK, it MAY be a tad faster to get the new virus definitions (like the #1) downloaded, but what if the firm you have chosen is slow to respond? At present, selling anti-virus software for Mac OS X is a hoax. Having said that, if no-one would buy it, the companies would not develop such software at all and response times would be considerable. And having said THAT: no-one seems to have described a mechanism that would install software on a Mac without the explicit approval of the user. I have to go through several steps and remember admin user names and their passwords to do some of the simplest things on my Macs, not to even speak about the complexities of software installation. Quote Link to comment
APE Design Ctr Posted March 30, 2007 Author Share Posted March 30, 2007 I know its a tough one, but with the increased popularity of OS X, viruses are bound to happen sooner or later. I have been a faithful mac user for 8 years now, but I have to be careful not to have my 'head in the sand' so to speak - and pretend that I am invincible... Thanks guys! Quote Link to comment
go2greece Posted March 30, 2007 Share Posted March 30, 2007 we had a virus on system os 6 >mandelbaum. it was 1988 or 1989. since that day nothing ever more. we use intego x4. peter Quote Link to comment
LarryAZ Posted March 31, 2007 Share Posted March 31, 2007 After carefully considering this post... I have decided to go with a rabbits foot for virus protection. I have it on top of my monitor. =-) Quote Link to comment
go2greece Posted April 1, 2007 Share Posted April 1, 2007 I have decided to go with a rabbits foot for virus protection. Does it come with an anual update? peter Quote Link to comment
Petri Posted April 1, 2007 Share Posted April 1, 2007 Yes. You just go out and hunt a new rabbit every year. Need a nice recipe for the rest of the rabbit? (It could be a bit Italian, I'm afraid... Let's call it Archimedian Rabbit, shall we?) Quote Link to comment
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