On 11/8/10 2:52 PM, Wallace Adrian D'Alessio wrote:
On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 1:26 AM, Ashgrove<salum...@gmail.com> wrote:
Nov 3, 7:41 pm, Yersinia<yersi...@myfairpoint.net> wrote:
Geeesh, is this what Windoze users have to do all the time?!?!?
Yes, siree, Bob. That's life on the other side.
I did the same thing out of curiosity, and downloaded Clamxav Beta 2
to my Intel iMac. It took 20 minutes to diagnose that there were zero
infections found. Meh.
On one of these lists, probably this one, was it not determined less than 2
months ago the no one had seen a Mac virus ? Nor felt a any palpable threat
by one.
I had reported that an Mac IT guy here in our mass media department who
administers a staff of techies and hundreds of Macs dismissed any such
threat.
It's true, Bruce and Dan have both repeatedly said that Macs on OS X do
not need AV, and seeing how I wasn't having problems with my Macs which
I thought might be on account of viruses, I wasn't running any AV
programs at all and was perfectly comfortable. Prior to this past week,
the last time I ran any kind of AV was circa 1999, using Disinfectant.
It was solely for reasons of curiosity from the recent discussions here
that I decided to pick up ClamXav Beta 2 and the Sophos AV program and
give 'em a try to see what would happen, just for the hell of it. And,
as it happened:
ClamXav was taking so long I decided to just quit it and I tried the
Sophos program. Sophos was fast, took less than an hour I think (I
didn't time it but subjectively it didn't feel like it was taking
"forever," and it finished its scan on its own), Well, what a surprise
(NOT!) -- according to Sophos, my Quicksilver is not infected with any
viruses. So I'll run Sophos on my Mini and iBook soon -- another "just
for the hell of it" thing. I don't really believe that the Mini and
iBook actually have any viruses, though.
~Yersinia.
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