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currently have ClamXav installed but its really rubbish..
i know the story about mac & viruses etc but..
How d'you know if it's rubbish or not, if there are no mac viruses?
i mean its rubbish to use....foe ex. i can no longer update the database and cannot find a fix.
I thought the Mac didn't have any viruses worth writing home about because [they're far more secure than PCs | no-one bothers writing viruses for minority systems] (delete where applicable)?
I'm no Mac expert, but my gut feeling is that so long as you're behind a hardware firewall (ie, your Internet router) I wouldn't bother.
There have been viruses. There was a damned annoying one in the late nineties which came from a former Soviet country, and was carried via infected Photoshop files. As we dealt with a lot of agencies there were lots of Photoshop files going backwards and forwards with the virus in. Our Macs kept showing alarms because the files kept getting re-infected by lazy graphics types not checking their computers and wondering why they kept running r e a l l y s l o w l y.
Reports of various viruses and worms keep popping up, but there don't seem to be any out in the wild at the moment. Never hurts to keep vigilant, tho'.
Yeah, I use it on my mac, no problems, gives a little peace of mind.
Always checks when the machine is turned on first thing, then checks randomly while in use.
Use the free version.
I've never used any Anti-Virus software in 15 yrs of using Macs. Just whack the firewall on and you'll be fine.
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don't go to the trouble of looking for new software - buy PC
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Are viruses really so minor a problem with Macs that many people don't use AV software? Ooh, that actually makes it very tempting to go and buy myself one.
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How else can I test out any viruses I develop?
No-one writes viruses any more. Especially not for MACs.
Trojans and client side exploits is where the smart malicious code guys are nowadays.
I use iantivirus. It was free, it's fairly unobtrusive and I've not been hit that I know of so far.
Pah - no need.
Reports of various viruses and worms keep popping up, but there don't seem to be any out in the wild at the moment. Never hurts to keep vigilant, tho'.
Dunno about viruses specifically but there is malware; Snow Leopard has a scanner built in to detect some of the ones which popped up in cracked apps. Think there is only 3 items in their signature DB at the moment 😆
http://www.h-online.com/security/news/item/Apple-expands-malware-protection-on-Mac-OS-X-1026058.html