Yep, I've done mac support since 1989, starting at college. We
were badly hit by viruses from time to time under late OS 6 (& I
think early 7), as you can imagine - loads of students all runnign
their OS off floppies that they swapped more often than bedmates. . .
weekly scans with disinfectant fixed it.
Since then, I've been hit twice more. Once was only a couple of
years ago, I think on 8.5 (or was it still 7.5.5? - which was pretty
good really) . This was an evil ***er that lurked in your system and
only trashed the HD if you booted at a certain time of a certain day
of a certain month.
Since then I've seen nothing.(Now on 9.1) I have a copy of Virex
antivirus program (not norton, thank god) but not actually active
and only ever run it about twice a year when I'm feeling paranoid!
Ben
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