At 9:42 AM -0500 2/27/2010, Lawrence David Eden wrote:
Can connecting a Mac to my school's internet cause problems?
No.
Well, perhaps -- in keeping in the theme of my reply below, it's
quite possible that your network connection may seem slow. This will
reveal yet-another shortcoming of your "tech person".
I was told by our "tech person" that connecting my old iMac at
school will cause viruses.
Your "tech person" is at best ignorant and at worst an outright liar.
He/she/it should be ashamed.
Every "tech person" - even the ones totally drowning in the
MS/Windows world - already *KNOWS* that there are NO viruses for Mac
OS X and only a few lame trojan horses.
That fact that your "tech person" said such a thing tells me that
he/she/it is afraid of the one virus that cannot be fought: the
KNOWLEDGE virus. He's afraid others will see how nice Mac OS X is,
and that it needs so little tech support, he'll be PINK SLIPPED.
I was wise enough not to argue the point, because the simple fact
that they were concerned was all I needed to realize that I was
going to lose any argument....
Yea. Never argue with idiots. It's mostly a lost cause.
I am hoping to re-open the issue at school.....where can I find the facts?
There have been a lot of articles published regarding this. Google
is your friend. Also search this group's archives. There have been
quite a few threads about malware on the Mac, with all sorts of good
references etc.
If you want to stoop to his level, which might be the political thing
to do, I guess, install ClamXav.
http://www.clamxav.com/
ClamXav is a free anti-virus product (ClamXav front end plus the
ClamAV open-source package), that's so good that Apple includes it in
OS X Server. It's not really good for much (detecting what doesn't
exist is a bit silly), but it will detect Windoze malware - you know,
those things your infected friends and co-workers are passing around
because they can't be bothered to wash their hands and stay away from
cooties, er a Windoze.
HTH,
- Dan.
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