A compromise might be to have scan on Write only, with a forced full system scan of all files at a certain time. For example at lunch time.
1. You don't have an all the time performance hit. 2. Files will be checked on a daily/weekly basis. Negatives are that these files may sit on the device while waiting for the next scheduled scan. Joe On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 2:45 AM, Yoann Gini <[email protected]> wrote: > > Le 30 juin 2014 à 01:48, Reindl Harald <[email protected]> a écrit : > > > but if you are talk with Apple "the OS is secure" priests > > forget it, they are learning resistent > > This is not true anymore. Any Apple representative wont tell you that > nowadays. Even more, Apple has a small antivirus builtin in the system. But > signatures based, focused on major OS X threats. No heuristics, no > detection of windows malwares. > > Le 30 juin 2014 à 01:38, Exibar <[email protected]> a écrit : > > > they claim they have a huge performance > > improvement with scan on read turned off... > > > This is also true. Sadly. I work only on Apple products (and I use > antivirus), I never seen a good product who don’t slow down the computer as > shit. > > From a sys admin perspective, Antivirus editors don’t take the Mac > seriously, their product are slow and sometime published with too much bug > inside. That don’t help Mac users to have any trust in it… > > _______________________________________________ > Sent through the Full Disclosure mailing list > http://nmap.org/mailman/listinfo/fulldisclosure > Web Archives & RSS: http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/ > _______________________________________________ Sent through the Full Disclosure mailing list http://nmap.org/mailman/listinfo/fulldisclosure Web Archives & RSS: http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/
