I recently bought a surplus 3400c that came from a school. It had an
obsolete copy of VIREX on it. At least the alias for the app is on the
desktop. I didn't go looking for the actual app to see if it was there.
They left everything else on the drive - this is from a school - so I
would imagine it is there.
Doc
Ge' wrote:
Hi all,
I wanted to know more exactly, so I searched a bit for info about Mac
viruses:
http://www.icsalabs.com/html/communities/antivirus/macvirus.shtml
http://www.faqs.org/faqs/computer-virus/macintosh-faq/
From those texts, you'll get a feeling for the 'danger' pending over
Mac users: The stats are that a Mac is at least 1000 times less prone to
pick up a virus as a PC.
So the risk is not zero, and in certain cases, you'll want to install
something like Norton AV for Mac, but in general, don't worry.
In the past, there were some Mac viruses, and Mac AV software. I have
been working in an all-Mac environment in those days and viruses were
an issue. But now that those older OSes are getting rarer, viruses die
a natural death: They depend on being able to spread before they are
detected, and that balance is way off nowadays.
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