Re: Anti-virus for Mac

2010-11-11 Thread Tina K.
On 2010/11/10 23:03, Richard Gerome so eloquently wrote: You need a virus software program if you run Windows on it... Since it is a brand new Apple product I think it's safe to say the included A-V is for OS X. Which does you no good when you are running Windoze. And it's probably Norton

Re: Anti-virus for Mac

2010-11-11 Thread Richard Gerome
Oh yeah, I know this Tina I should have said that... You do need a Windows anti virus for it!!! -Original Message- From: Tina K. penguir...@gmail.com Sent: Nov 11, 2010 11:21 AM To: g3-5-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Anti-virus for Mac On 2010/11/10 23:03, Richard Gerome so

Re: Anti-virus for Mac

2010-11-11 Thread Ross
Tina K. wrote: Today on the Price Is Wright they had a MacPro in the showcase showdown, it came equipped with a 1TB hard drive… … and anti-virus software. I almost choked on my soda. Tina Soap addiction is one thing, but, for dogs' sake Tina, stop trying to devour your couch! -- You

Re: Anti-virus for Mac

2010-11-10 Thread Joshua Juran
On Nov 3, 2010, at 7:10 PM, Jonas Ulrich wrote: Why would you buy antivirus for mac I've never heard of anyone getting a virus on a mac, and I never have before. My last infection was 2002, when a client provided a CD-ROM of a ten year-old application which was infected, probably with

Re: Anti-virus for Mac

2010-11-10 Thread Dan
At 11:48 AM -0400 11/2/2010, Dan wrote: Clam and ClamXav were just recently updated... And now Sophos is offering a free version of their anti-virus tool At 10:32 AM -0700 11/3/2010, Bruce Johnson wrote: Sophos was throwing false positives like mad on Java last month False positives are

Re: Anti-virus for Mac

2010-11-10 Thread Tina K.
Today on the Price Is Wright they had a MacPro in the showcase showdown, it came equipped with a 1TB hard drive… … and anti-virus software. I almost choked on my soda. Tina -- iMac 20 USB 2 1.25GHz G4 2GB RAM GeForce FX 5200 Ultra 64MB DDR Gnome/Ubuntu 10.10 Power Mac June 04 2GHz G5DP

Re: Anti-virus for Mac

2010-11-10 Thread Dan
At 7:12 PM -0700 11/10/2010, Tina K. wrote: Today on the Price Is Wright they had a MacPro in the showcase showdown, it came equipped with a 1TB hard driveŠ Š and anti-virus software. I almost choked on my soda. ROFL! - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- You

Re: Anti-virus for Mac

2010-11-10 Thread James Therrault
On Nov 10, 2010, at 8:12 PM, Tina K. wrote: Today on the Price Is Wright they had a MacPro in the showcase showdown, it came equipped with a 1TB hard drive… … and anti-virus software. I almost choked on my soda. Yeah, but Drew has really slimmed down and he's a Mac guy... JT

Re: Anti-virus for Mac

2010-11-10 Thread Wallace Adrian D'Alessio
On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 5:06 AM, James Therrault jetas...@netzero.comwrote: On Nov 10, 2010, at 8:12 PM, Tina K. wrote: Today on the Price Is Wright they had a MacPro in the showcase showdown, it came equipped with a 1TB hard drive… … and anti-virus software. I almost choked on my

Re: Anti-virus for Mac

2010-11-10 Thread Richard Gerome
You need a virus software program if you run Windows on it...-Original Message- From: Wallace Adrian D'Alessio <fluxstrin...@gmail.com> Sent: Nov 11, 2010 12:02 AM To: g3-5-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Anti-virus for Mac On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 5:06 AM, James Therrault

Re: Anti-virus for Mac

2010-11-09 Thread Richard Gerome
: Anti-virus for Mac So John Thinks there are Mac viruses or has had a personal experience of a Mac virus and no one else does or has?( sorry John. 10 years of no one reporting a virus of thousands of LEM listers overrides anything else I have seen yet. Despite all the scare tactic bruhaha from tho

Re: Anti-virus for Mac

2010-11-09 Thread Tina K.
On 2010/11/08 17:08, Bill Connelly so eloquently wrote: Aren't all files with .exe reported as suspect virus files? Not all of them, just the malicious ones. Which might be construed as most of them. ;-) Tina -- iMac 20 USB 2 1.25GHz G4 2GB RAM GeForce FX 5200 Ultra 64MB DDR Gnome/Ubuntu

Re: Anti-virus for Mac

2010-11-09 Thread Jonas Ulrich
Why would you buy antivirus for mac I've never heard of anyone getting a virus on a mac, and I never have before. -Jonas -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list

Re: Anti-virus for Mac

2010-11-08 Thread Ashgrove
Nov 3, 7:41 pm, Yersinia yersi...@myfairpoint.net wrote: Geeesh, is this what Windoze users have to do all the time?!?!? Yes, siree, Bob. That's life on the other side. I did the same thing out of curiosity, and downloaded Clamxav Beta 2 to my Intel iMac. It took 20 minutes to diagnose that

Re: Anti-virus for Mac

2010-11-08 Thread Wallace Adrian D'Alessio
On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 1:26 AM, Ashgrove salum...@gmail.com wrote: Nov 3, 7:41 pm, Yersinia yersi...@myfairpoint.net wrote: Geeesh, is this what Windoze users have to do all the time?!?!? Yes, siree, Bob. That's life on the other side. I did the same thing out of curiosity, and downloaded

Re: Anti-virus for Mac

2010-11-08 Thread Yersinia
On 11/8/10 2:52 PM, Wallace Adrian D'Alessio wrote: On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 1:26 AM, Ashgrovesalum...@gmail.com wrote: Nov 3, 7:41 pm, Yersiniayersi...@myfairpoint.net wrote: Geeesh, is this what Windoze users have to do all the time?!?!? Yes, siree, Bob. That's life on the other side. I

Re: Anti-virus for Mac

2010-11-08 Thread Wallace Adrian D'Alessio
So John Thinks there are Mac viruses or has had a personal experience of a Mac virus and no one else does or has? ( sorry John. 10 years of no one reporting a virus of thousands of LEM listers overrides anything else I have seen yet. Despite all the scare tactic bruhaha from those who write the

Re: Anti-virus for Mac

2010-11-08 Thread Bill Connelly
On Nov 8, 2010, at 6:41 PM, Wallace Adrian D'Alessio wrote: So John Thinks there are Mac viruses or has had a personal experience of a Mac virus and no one else does or has? ( sorry John. 10 years of no one reporting a virus of thousands of LEM listers overrides anything else I have seen

Re: Anti-virus for Mac

2010-11-04 Thread Yersinia
On 11/3/10 11:36 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote: On Nov 3, 2010, at 7:10 PM, Yersinia wrote: OK, thanks for the heads-up about a first time virus scan being like Spotlight/taking forever. Maybe I will try Sophos after all. But... what IS Access scanning and what do you mean by files are only

Re: Anti-virus for Mac

2010-11-03 Thread Tina K.
On 2010/11/02 09:48, Dan so eloquently wrote: Clam and ClamXav were just recently updated... (get the version 2 beta - it's stable, not java, works well) http://www.clamxav.com/ And now Sophos is offering a free version of their anti-virus tool

Re: Anti-virus for Mac

2010-11-03 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Nov 3, 2010, at 10:18 AM, Tina K. wrote: Downloaded both, ran Sophos first and it found two threats in some games for my phone, one Java and one .exe. Don't know what (if anything) the Java file would have done had I tried to run them on my Mac, but they're gone now. Sophos was

Re: Anti-virus for Mac

2010-11-03 Thread Yersinia
On 11/2/10 11:48 AM, Dan wrote: Clam and ClamXav were just recently updated... (get the version 2 beta - it's stable, not java, works well) http://www.clamxav.com/ And now Sophos is offering a free version of their anti-virus tool

Re: Anti-virus for Mac

2010-11-03 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Nov 3, 2010, at 5:41 PM, Yersinia wrote: Out of curiosity, I actually downloaded both of these. Decided to start with the ClamXav version 2 beta first, and it's been running for pushing a couple of hours now! It's STILL scanning my G4 Quicksilver 867's 60 GB HDD. No infections are

Re: Anti-virus for Mac

2010-11-03 Thread Yersinia
On 11/3/10 9:55 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote: On Nov 3, 2010, at 5:41 PM, Yersinia wrote: Out of curiosity, I actually downloaded both of these. Decided to start with the ClamXav version 2 beta first, and it's been running for pushing a couple of hours now! It's STILL scanning my G4 Quicksilver

Re: Anti-virus for Mac

2010-11-03 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Nov 3, 2010, at 7:10 PM, Yersinia wrote: OK, thanks for the heads-up about a first time virus scan being like Spotlight/taking forever. Maybe I will try Sophos after all. But... what IS Access scanning and what do you mean by files are only ever scanned if the system touches thsm?

Anti-virus for Mac

2010-11-02 Thread Dan
Clam and ClamXav were just recently updated... (get the version 2 beta - it's stable, not java, works well) http://www.clamxav.com/ And now Sophos is offering a free version of their anti-virus tool http://www.sophos.com/pressoffice/news/articles/2010/11/free-mac-anti-virus.html - Dan. -- -

Re: Anti-virus for Mac

2010-11-02 Thread Baha Ata
BitDefender got a Beta 2... Free for enrolment www.bitdefender.com i have been using them for may Macs on 10.6.4 But for intel onyl.. There is only ClamXav and Sophos for Mac that i could find while i am with my Powerbook G4 2010/11/2 Dan dantear...@gmail.com Clam and ClamXav were just

Re: Anti-virus for Mac

2010-11-02 Thread Ashgrove
I keep a tiger's eye paperweight on my desk. It did cost me money, but it works just as well --plus it does not uses any RAM, which is a nice bonus. Looks cool, too...;-) Felix -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs