Thanks to all for you advice. I'll think I'll go for a joint approach of trying out i-Antivirus combined with the commonsense recommendation. i-Antivirus appears to be more user friendly than the Intego stuff and less memory hungry.
Malcolm On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 7:43 PM, Ian Willoughby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Not strictly true, also with the number of holes in Quictime recently > injecting malicious code over a website has never been easier. The Mac was > pwned quicker than even Windows a coupleof months back at a hacker > convention and the exploit has only just been patched. Whilst it is in > theory harder to elabste priviledges from user to administrator it isn't > imposible. As for Trojan's these could contain key loggers which if you do > only banking are very bad. > > Having said all that I don't run antivirus but then I also have over 15 > years of Unix sytems programming under my belt and I would hope could spot > most things that didn't belong. > > On the whole if you are sensible you should be ok but this also includes > things like not connecting to public wifi, ensuring you are firewalled etc > and unless you have the latest updates not viewing QuickTime files on > websites. > > Ian > > Sent from my iPhone > > On 26 Sep 2008, at 18:54, Sam - MacAmbulance <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > There are no viruses for OS X, there are a few trojans, which can only be > installed when you type your password in, that change your DNS settings to > point you to advert websites. > Common sense is a much better protection than antivirus software on the > Mac. Don't download software from file sharing networks such as Limewire, > don't run installers that you aren't sure where they came from, don't run > (for example) an installer that purports to install Microsoft Office 2008 > and is only 500k in size (file menu > get info), set Safari not to auto open > downloaded files (preferences > untick 'open "safe" files after > downloading). > > The only virus I've ever seen affect OS X is the MS Word macro virus which > embeds itself into your normal document template and annoys PC users if they > open the file. It affects your ability to send documents to people as the > email servers recognise the virus and block the mail but it doesn't affect > your Mac at all. The fix is to delete home folder > Documents > Microsoft > User Data > Normal.dot > > Regards > > Sam > [image: MacAmbulance] > providing affordable Apple & PC services > Sam Mullen > 07747 778022 > <http://www.macambulance.co.uk>http://www.macambulance.co.uk > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
