OK I see your point. I'll download ClamXav and test it out. One thing
to think about if your the conspiratorial type is who stand to
benefit from computer virus? While some malware are used to set up
bot-nets for illegal use many virus seem to exist for no other reason
that to exist. So other than 15-year-old boys who don't have
girlfriends to keep them occupied who stands to benefit from virus?
The only people I can think of is the vendors of anti-virus software.
On May 6, 2007, at 09:52 , Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis wrote:
Greg Kearney wrote:
I am not sure that the Mac version of Norton are able to detect
the PC versions of virus that might exist in email for example.
Why do you think that? This is certainly among the reasons for
using the (free and open source) antivirus software ClamXav:
http://www.clamxav.com/
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Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
Greg
On May 6, 2007, at 09:32 , Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis wrote:
It's not a racket. Even if Macs were virus-proof, anti-virus
software would still help mac-users spreading viruses to Windows-
using peers. Good anti-virus software should also catch some
macro viruses in Microsoft Office documents, which I think can
affect Macs.
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Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
Greg Kearney wrote:
I always thought that writing anti-virus software for an OS with
no known virus was a racket. Also wouldn't it serve Norton and
the other such makers of software to "report" a virus from time
to time if for no other reason than to make sure you keep buying
the subscriptions?
Greg
On May 6, 2007, at 09:14 , Access Curmudgeon wrote:
May I just set the records strait here. I know Geraldine very
very well, and she is not in the habbit of writing spam mail.
Maybe, but she has mistaken a false positive from her anti
virus software.
There is maleware available for OS X, but there are no
viruses. That
is, there is no OS X maleware that self-replicates without active
end-user collaboration.
The fact that less than companies will sell you quote antivirus
unquote software just demonstrates their lack of honesty.
Would you
buy software that supposedly protected your computer from
dinosaurs
and dragons?
Now maybe someday some how someone will create a true OS X
virus. And
maybe people with Norton OS X antivirus will be in better shape
than
those of us without it. But I doubt it. Given that Norton is
happen
to sell people false promises now, they don't inspire me with much
confidence.
Greg Kearney
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