Thanks Ronni I shall advise Graham to save his (and my) money!
Regards Diana On 13/03/2012, at 4:33 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: > > On 13/03/2012, at 4:13 PM, Diana & Graham Stevens wrote: > >> Hello List >> >> Any thoughts about the usefulness of this program? >> >> My husband wants to buy it from MacUpdate while it is 68% off today only. >> >> Regards >> Diana > > Hi Diana, > > I’ll give my 2 cents worth, people can take it or leave it ;-) > > I got sent the same email with the discount. But I won’t be purchasing or > installing. > > To date, there is no executable, covertly installing Spyware for Macs. > > There are keyloggers, but they are generally installed intentionally (to > monitor other users' behavior on a particular computer). There are also > tracking cookies, which some consider to be a breach of privacy. > They are easily deleted using the browser's own purging functions. > > These are the things that MacScan is designed to find. > > The makers of MacScan and Symantec make you believe that you need their > products. > But, it's really not necessary … not yet anyway… possibly the time might > come, but until then I won’t be installing any of this type of software. > > The Mac is becoming more secure with each new release of the Operating System > and OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion with Gatekeeper is making the Mac more secure > from this type of threat. > > Gatekeeper prevents a malware app from running even if you deliberately > download it to your computer the same day it gets written. Gatekeeper works > this way: > By default, Mountain Lion will only run an app that it deems safe because > either you downloaded the app from the App Store or because the app was > written by a licensed Apple Developer and contains a digital signature that > would be destroyed if a malicious hacker modified the original code. > Apple will provide a digital signature to every registered developer for > inclusion in their software, so, by the time Mountain Lion ships, all your > apps should be signed and safe. > > 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> > Settings & Unsubscribe - > <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> -- 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> Settings & Unsubscribe - <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug>
