Virus scan
Hi All do i need a antivirus for mac. -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Virus scan
Hi Glenn The general view is that you do not 'need' an antivirus program on the mac, but it is probably wise to start looking at one as the popularity of the Mac increases. There are a couple of free apps: iAntivirus for Mac ClamXav I currently use ClamXav, but iAntivirus seems to be getting some reasonable reviews. The only significant threat I have heard about recently was a trogan contained in a pirate download of iWorks 09! Regards Daniel Forsdyke On 02/03/2009, at 14:30, Glenn Walker wal...@amnet.net.au wrote: Hi All do i need a antivirus for mac. -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Virus scan
This article may help: http://www.macworld.com/article/137397/2008/12/doyouneedantivirus.html%3E.The Regards, Eugene On 02/03/2009, at 2:30 PM, Glenn Walker wrote: Hi All do i need a antivirus for mac. -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Virus scan
On 02/03/2009, at 2:30 PM, Glenn Walker wrote: Hi All do i need a antivirus for mac. Hello Glenn, Most people will probably say you don't need virus protection on a mac. But I have been using iAntiVirus v1.3.4. mainly for its 'Protect my Mac' feature. OnGuard protects your Mac against infections in real time. Whenever an infection is detected and blocked, an alert is displayed below the system menu bar. OnGuard automatically places detected infections in quarantine, works silently in the background and uses minimal system resources. Having said that, I (of course) have not been alerted to any infections etc ;-) System requirements all for Mac OS X 10.5 or later and 15MB hard disk space. http://www.iantivirus.com/ Article about it here: http://www.macworld.com/article/134219/2008/06/iantivirus.html Cheers, Ronni -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Virus scan
What about VirusScan from McAfee? Stuart Breden PO Box 132 Kalamunda WA 6926 Hm Ph: (08) 9257 1577 Wk Ph: (08) 9291 4599 Mbl: 0417 053 266 On 02/03/2009, at 2:42 PM, Daniel Forsdyke wrote: Hi Glenn The general view is that you do not 'need' an antivirus program on the mac, but it is probably wise to start looking at one as the popularity of the Mac increases. There are a couple of free apps: iAntivirus for Mac ClamXav I currently use ClamXav, but iAntivirus seems to be getting some reasonable reviews. The only significant threat I have heard about recently was a trogan contained in a pirate download of iWorks 09! Regards Daniel Forsdyke On 02/03/2009, at 14:30, Glenn Walker wal...@amnet.net.au wrote: Hi All do i need a antivirus for mac. -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Virus scan
On 02/03/2009, at 2:42 PM, Daniel Forsdyke wrote: Hi Glenn The general view is that you do not 'need' an antivirus program on the mac, but it is probably wise to start looking at one as the popularity of the Mac increases. There are a couple of free apps: iAntivirus for Mac ClamXav I currently use ClamXav, but iAntivirus seems to be getting some reasonable reviews. The only significant threat I have heard about recently was a trogan contained in a pirate download of iWorks 09! Regards Daniel Forsdyke On 02/03/2009, at 14:30, Glenn Walker wal...@amnet.net.au wrote: Hi All do i need a antivirus for mac. And I certainly wouldn't go spending money on one at this stage. There is an often-expressed idea that we Mac users should somehow protect their Windows-using colleagues from themselves by installing anti- virus software on our computers. I have several reactions to this, the most immediate being that they should already be running anti-virus software themselves anyway: if they're not then there's not much I can do to help them. The next is that most virus infections are contracted through personal behaviour: opening attachments in email, clicking unknown links in emails, visiting dubious sites on the Internet, downloading files of unknown or dubious origin (did someone say Limewire? No, sorry...that was iWork 09), failing to keep up to date with System Updates, etc. These rules are just as valuable to Mac users as Wndows users, and are a much more effective protection against the potential threat of Mac OS X viruses (which still don't exist in any meaningful way) than running some pointless bloatware which simply consumes processor cycles for no good reason. A classic example: a client called me, wanting to know why an important attachment she was trying to download was not working properly. It must have been important, since it was attached to a message telling her that a package was waiting for her to pick up. Despite the fact that the message contained no other information (Company name, contact name, Consignment Note number, or anything else that might serve as identifying material) she was nevertheless determined to see what this valuable package might be. Luckily, she was running a Mac, so the nasty little program she had downloaded about a dozen times by now was powerless to do anything to her computer, or more importantly, the rest of the network. On a Windows network it would have been a disaster waiting to happen. It's easy to say that one day someone will figure out how to get this stuff to work on a Mac. It's also just as easy to say they won't, but Mac OS X has been around now for nearly ten years, with never much more than a vague hint cropping up every six months or so that a virus has finally been written for the Mac. These announcements have never amounted to anything significant, and with the future release of Snow Leopard and beyond, seem less and less likely to do so. -- Peter HinchliffeApwin Computer Services FileMaker Pro Solutions Developer Perth, Western Australia Phone (618) 9332 6482Fax (618) 9332 0913 Mac because I prefer it -- Windows because I have to. -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Virus scan
If you are running Gmail (or Google Apps for your Gmail), Google does virus scanning automatically, for free. In which case a standard anti-virus programme (that scans email) is irrelevant. I use Little Snitch. In their words: A firewall protects your computer against unwanted guests from the Internet. But who protects your private data from being sent out? Little Snitch does! For any request to send data from your computer, you get an alert. You can approve or deny it, temporarily or permanently. It is very simple and convenient. This takes care of many of the theoretical problems that might arise if your computer was compromised. In practice, it is a good way of knowing what programs 'phone home'. Glenn. 2009/3/2 Glenn Walker wal...@amnet.net.au: Hi All do i need a antivirus for mac. -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
McAfee Virus Scan for Mac 8.6
Hi Everyone I received a Malware Alarm a couple of days ago while using Safari on my 1.42 GHz eMac with 80 GB hard drive and 1 GB RAM running OSX Tiger 10.4.10 Files that I downloaded in respect to the alarm were both .exe and unavailable to me so it may have been some kind of fishing expedition to sell Malware. Although I haven't done so before, I now feel I should install an anti-virus program. I had planned to buy McAfee Virus Scan for Mac 8.6 Is there other software that members consider better ? I used to have Virex on my old computer. Any advice would be appreciated. Regards John -- John Weekes 13 / 244 Mill Point Road South Perth 6151 +61 8 9367 5310 -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: McAfee Virus Scan for Mac 8.6
Hi John , You could try the WAMUG archives and search for virus ! Plenty of answers there ! http://www.mail-archive.com/wamug@wamug.org.au/maillist.html and you could look at this option :- http://www.clamxav.com/ Bob On 19/11/2007, at 7:38 AM, John Weekes wrote: Hi Everyone I received a Malware Alarm a couple of days ago while using Safari on my 1.42 GHz eMac with 80 GB hard drive and 1 GB RAM running OSX Tiger 10.4.10 Files that I downloaded in respect to the alarm were both .exe and unavailable to me so it may have been some kind of fishing expedition to sell Malware. Although I haven't done so before, I now feel I should install an anti-virus program. I had planned to buy McAfee Virus Scan for Mac 8.6 Is there other software that members consider better ? I used to have Virex on my old computer. Any advice would be appreciated. Regards John -- John Weekes 13 / 244 Mill Point Road South Perth 6151 +61 8 9367 5310 -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
