Hi! I'm sure this discussion has appeared on this list many times before <smile>, well its appeared in our local newspaper this morning in the "Mac man" computer column.
It would appear the problem lies in "spreading" of a virus with a Mac machine rather than having your Mac machine "Infected" by a virus. To illustrate the point even further take Swine flue, the pig - whilst passing the virus on as a carrier - is not infected nor will he infect humans who eat his pork or bacon. The human on the other hand may become infected by swine flue from the pig or other humans, put the human in the position of the Windows computer and the Pig in the position of the Mac and whilst you'll acknowledge that the problem may not be as severe with the Pig or the Mac it nevertheless is a problem that is best dealt with to prevent the virus spreading. Several "Anti Virus" applications exist for the Mac, Symantec's Anti Virus for Mac got a mention but I've not been able to find a trial copy of this, does anyone else know of any other Anti Virus packages or is anyone else using an Anti Virus package for the Mac. If people are interested in the Article then it will be up on "My Sendspace" shortly for download, I'll post the link here. ****************************** Dane Trethowan From Melton Victoria Australia mailto:"[email protected] Twitter: http://twitter.com/grtdane blog: http://www.grtdane.wordpress.com Phone United Kingdom 02032874641 Phone Australia 0390058589 Phone United States 8159261869 Fax: +61 3 9743 7954x MSN [email protected] skype:grtdane12 ****************************** --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
