EVERYONE needs antivirus software, not necessarily for YOUR Mac, but for EVERYONE ELSE who uses Windows. A Mac can very easily forward a virus
I'd be interested in hearing more of your take on this. Most of this recent rash of viruses have their own SMTP engines and require an IA32 processor and Windows to run. The only time that I would say that it would be a MUST would be if you were allowing your Mac to be used as an email server that people with Windows connected to via POP3, IMAP and or SMTP. However, I'm not sure if any of the Mac AV software packages would be what you would run in a case like that. (I'll admit that I'm not familar with any of them, so I'm assuming that they are more desktop oriented than server oriented)
Steve Fuller
Right...I would also like some clarification here...my son and I have had major fights over this...he insists that A/V for the Mac is a scam and a waste of money. Says that it is all a hoax perpetrated by the A/V companies for $$$. I have rec'd at least 1 of those new Windows viral attachments a day for the last 3 weeks and immediately delete them...He maintains that there are no such things as Mac virus's and that a Windows virus can't be passed on by a Mac and if one can, any Windows user that gets a virus either supposedly passed on from a Mac or some other Windows user deserves what they get if they aren't using the latest A/V updates. Anyone know for sure whether a Mac can pass on a Windows virus?
Regards, Mike
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