Well, I've just installed and run ClamXAV. Very accessible and extremely fast. Frankly, it's such a good little but extremely thorough antivirus app that I do believe that when I can, I shall make a small donation to the dev. It's not mandatory-but, I'm sure it's appreciated when possible. Like I said, quite accessible. The only two buttons which are not lalabled have help tags to assist in that, so, that's not a big deal at all. Most everything can be controled from the tool bar. One strange thing is that, unlike most Mac aps, you don't get in to the prefs window using command+comma: rather, you do this via the tool bar. Quite a nice little package and very well put together I must say.
Sent from my mac Sincerely, The Constantly Barefooted Ray Still a very proud and happy Mac and Iphone user! On Feb 20, 2013, at 4:11 PM, Jessica Moss <[email protected]> wrote: > I was actually curious about antivirus software myself. > On Feb 20, 2013, at 1:43 PM, Eugenia Firth wrote: > >> Hi guys >> I am speaking here strictly from a lay woman's point of view, especially >> after what happened to a blind friend of mine who was beside herself with >> fury when her Windows desktop caught a vicious virus and she had to spend >> all day on the issue, including disconnecting and wagging the desktop (using >> cab fare), to get rid of the virus. She has virus protection on her >> computer, but this nasty virus killed off WindowEyes so that it didn't tell >> her she had a problem. She misinterpreted everything and thought that her >> computer had just locked up for some stupid reason. The WindowEyes people, >> even though they probably weren't supposed to help her with issues other >> than WindowEye tried, but she had to get a reader to look at the screen, >> whereupon she found out that the nasty virus had put up a notice that she >> should pay the crooks $200 to get rid of this thing. >> >> Now, the reason I mention this is that this noncomputer professional has >> better things to do with her time than dealing with the consequences of >> crooks, and I think it was probably something that MicroSoft never dreamed >> would get this bad. But in my opinion, Steve Jobs was right. All of this has >> to be co-ordinated and put together so it works as a unit. I hope that, if >> Apple hasn't done it already, that keeping up with these viruses will need >> to be done by them so that everybody, his brother and sister, too, won't >> have to get involved in this and it won't become a big business like >> apparently it is for Windows users. I mean, my friend had to shop around to >> get the best price she could to get rid of this nasty thing created by >> people who should be in jail. >> >> Just my two cents worth, such that it is. >> >> Regards, >> Gigi >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
