Re: OS 10.3.3 (anti-virus question)

[Andrew]

You need it because those viruses fake the sender's address, so you 
might get something from someone you "trust", which is really a virus, 
then not being able to open the "photo" that your "friend" sent, you 
reply asking him or her to send it again only now your friend's 
computer (which runs Windows) is infected by that virus that YOU sent.

Not only that, but the SMTP worms are only the latest threat, there are 
plenty of older and different pieces of malware out there, and while a 
Mac cannot be infected by Windows code, it can spread it as described 
above.  Also, while there aren't any OS X virii yet, there will be.  I 
used to think the same in the System 7.5.1 days and didn't bother with 
antivirus, until I got hit by the Autostart worm which after going 
unnoticed for a week or two rendered most of my documents damaged or 
useless (It randomely replaced ones with zeros).

I won't use ANY computer without antivirus, even a Mac.

Andrew



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On Mar 19, 2004, at 4:47 AM, Steve Fuller wrote:
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

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