Protecting against Autostart worm today is no big deal, protecting against the virus that comes out next week, next month or next year is the reason to use virus protection on a Mac or any other computer.
I use Norton on both my Macs and PCs, it catches plenty of Word macro viruses and I know that when the big Mac virus does come, they will have definitions for it as fast as any other antivirus company will. It may not be fast enough, but it might. Having no protection at all will definitely not be fast enough. Andrew -----Original Message----- From: G-Books [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Bob Sent: Saturday, September 18, 2004 1:54 AM To: G-Books Subject: Re: Virus protection? The National Enquirer reports at 2:44 AM -0400 9/18/04, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >At 11:13 PM -0700 09/17/2004, Zoltan Batiz wrote: > >I guess I'd throw in my two bits in this thread. There hasn't been > >a publicly announced virus on the Macintosh platform in over 3 years. > >So you missed all the bruha. > > >This doesn't mean that we will never see one, but it does mean that > >the Mac in general is going to be much safer than a PC. . .for now. > >The Mac community is asleep. >We're ripe 'n' ready to pluck. >tick tick tick Just to bring things back to the original frame of reference (and I hope you wrong, Dan, but even if you are dead on) if someone wrote a virus for any Mac OS today, none of the virus software on the market would be of any benefit until someone came up with new definitions for the virus. That being said, if having a virus software on his Mac will help Samuel sleep better at night, the only non-Microsoft OS 9 viruses of recent years were SevenDust and Autostart Worm. He can use Agax (freeware) to protect against both. It should still be available on <http://www.macupdate.com/> Bob -- G-Books is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> G-Books list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com --------------------------------------------------------------- -- G-Books is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> G-Books list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
