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Re: Do you use an Anti-virus program on your Macs? - kj4btkljv - 01-10-2012
I've got ClamXav installed, but can't remember the last time I ran a scan with it.
Jeff
Re: Do you use an Anti-virus program on your Macs? - bwicklander - 01-10-2012
I used Virex in the 90s - It caught one worm back in 1997 (macaddict disc?).
Nothing since.... My father installed Nortons on the iMac because Comcast told him that he had to do it. What a PITA piece of software.
Re: Do you use an Anti-virus program on your Macs? - Article Accelerator - 01-11-2012
No.
And virus/trojan/worm-free since switching to Mac OS X in March 2001.
Re: Do you use an Anti-virus program on your Macs? - wickedsteve - 01-11-2012
Only in BootCamp.
No. - RAMd®d - 01-11-2012
I had a near brush with Sendust[ (?) or something like that when MacAddict or Macworld pressed a disc with the worm inside.
Never loaded it; they send a clean disc, no problems.
Re: Do you use an Anti-virus program on your Macs? - Rolando - 01-11-2012
Mac OS X.
Best. Antivirus. Ever.
Re: Do you use an Anti-virus program on your Macs? - TheCaber - 01-11-2012
No.
I don't have anything that runs MacOS 8 or 9, nor System 0-7.
MacOS X is Unix.
If I ever run VmWare/BootCamp/Parallels/Fusion and some flavor of Windows, then I will have something for Windows, only.
Re: Do you use an Anti-virus program on your Macs? - Jimmypoo - 01-11-2012
I've tried Intego and ESET http://www.eset.com/us/home/products/antivirus-for-mac/
but neither have ever discovered anything on 6 TB of old and new data, and they
slow the machine down when set to examine every webpage, every new file (every cookie, etc.)
Worthless...
The only thing I use now is MacScan - which was free during a special offer (and it updates and sends
me a receipt for $0) - but it just looks for tracking cookies (as I have it set) and removes them,
and only runs when I launch it 2x a week. 3 mins and it's done. (Longer if you've never cleared
cookies or had a reason to reset Safari... maybe 20 minutes).
Example... I went to PepBoys.com to look at tires, and every site afterwards for 3 days, the ads on
the right where ads for PepBoys tire deals. Really pissed me off, actually. The blacklist was updated
that week, and MacScan removed that b@stard and I was free of it.
the only way I would ever run a permanent version on a Windows install would be if it were done via
BootCamp. Not on a virtual machine. I keep "virgin installs" - so if I did happen to get a virus on a
virtual machine... who cares? Throw it away - and open up the virgin install that's zipped and always
ready to extract like a clean piece of paper.