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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. |