Tim,
terrific article, and I agree with you.
Perhaps I am an innocent, but even those bugs one might get from a windows
user are not going to harm your mac. I tend to guess that those who are
seriously running virtual environments where windows remains an important
part of their computing life have a reason for concern, but even there
I may be wrong.
Karen
On Sun, 31 Oct 2010, Tim Kilburn wrote:
Hi all,
I've been watching these virus protection threads for a while and still ask the
question:
• What makes you feel the need to have such an animal on your Mac?
There are really no virus threats within MacOS X. There were a number of them
in OS 9 but most of you, if running Snow Leopard, don't have any OS 9 matter on
your computer anyway as Classic is no longer supported. There is the argument
that you may unintentionally pass things on as you forward eMails from Windows
users but that can be easily managed by watching what's attached to the
messages you pass on. check out this article for your own interpretation:
http://www.silvermac.com/2008/why-there-are-no-viruses-for-osx/
FYI, I haven't used a virus protection package myself since OS 9 and I don't
use them at my place of work either where we're running close to a 1000 Macs.
Just my opinion and you can take it however you choose.
Thanks.
Tim Kilburn
Fort McMurray, AB Canada
On 2010-10-31, at 4:47 AM, chad baker wrote:
Hi is there any free antivirus programs for mac?
i tried i antivirus but found it sluggish when reading through vo was
responding slow.
how's clamsev?
thanks
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