Thanks! I've just been looking at the products quoted in the article and 2 have free trials available though I was turned off completely by the amount of data I had to supply in order to get the trial so I think I'll take your advice <smile< you wouldn't have an url would you?
On 20/08/2009, at 7:21 AM, Maxwell Ivey Jr. wrote: > Hello; I use iantivirus because its free. They have a paid version > you can upgrade to, but I haven't felt the need or had the funds in > the budget. There aren't any free trials of sematics any more. You > have 30 days to request your money back. I've never been a fan of > norton. I don't know anything about aol's product, but if I were > going to pay for one; I'd get semantic. Hope that helps, Max > On Aug 19, 2009, at 4:02 PM, Dane Trethowan wrote: > >> 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 >> >> ****************************** >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> ****************************** 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
