> On 19 Dec 2017, at 08:51, Michael <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On 2017-12-19, at 2:15 AM, @lbutlr <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 18 Dec 2017, at 03:14, Jean-Christophe Helary >> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> A client is kind of requesting that I install an anti-virus/malware on my >>> mac… >> >> Explain to them the reasons this is a bad idea. > > OK, why is this a bad idea?
That is a very long post I'm not willing to make again. The many and varied issues with AV are well documented not eh Internet. The short list is that AV software introduces its own deep vulnerabilities and exposes your system to those new flaws that the OS vendor can't mitigate and that it draws excessive resources. There are more issues than those, of course. >>> Do you have any recommendation ? I checked the web already and it looks >>> like Sophos does the job *and* is free… >> >> My recommendation for Macs is always the same, do not run as admin, do not >> run anti-virus software. Do not download software for bit torrent. > > 1. What is wrong with AV? On the Mac it does nothing of use and has a huge trade-off. > 2. What is wrong with bit torrent? Downloading software from bit torrent is unsafe as many torrents include trojans or malware. > I know that bad stuff can be seeded, and labeled as "good". > But it is no different than downloading anything else. Yes, it is very different from downloading from a known source. > And if you trust the person publishing the seed, what is wrong with the > resultant file? That a mighty big if. -- Apple broke AppleScripting signatures in Mail.app, so no random signatures. _______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
