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Join Date: May 2007
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I just got the new macbook pro and i want to get some type of anti virus software, but there is such a small section of stuff compared to an old pc user. The only two products i've seen have been Intego VirusBarrier and Nortons. Is there any other better products or suggestions?
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Join Date: May 2004
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Yeah. Avoid Norton at all costs.
There are no Mac viruses, but if you want to make sure you don't pass along a Windows virus to someone else in an email or document, go download ClamAV/X. It's free, it's good, and it won't screw over your system like Norton. No need to spend money on this, really. |
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Which way is up?
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Boyzeee
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Intego makes a pretty good product. But you will find that most of us are going to recommend against any anti-stuff. Ant--this and that is just going to slow your machine down while it accomplishes very little. You will find that, if someone sends out an e-mail that is nasty-laden, your antivirus will find it and eliminate it, although said nasty would have no effect on your Mac, anyway.
Just avoid the stuff. You'll be happier for it. - AppleNova is the best Mac-users forum on the internet. We are smart, educated, capable, and helpful. We are also loaded with smart-alecks! :) - Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God. (Mat 5:9) |
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If you really want some kind of Anti-Virus software then use Clam.
If you want your OS to kernel panic often and to demonstrate windows like instability than install Norton, otherwise stay as far from any Norton/symantic/macafee product as you can. You're looking at eons of repression getting purged. If only they'd let us jerk off. Beware the man of one book. ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas |
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Which way is up?
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Boyzeee
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That's exactly right. BSU, here in town, requires ALL computers, not just PCs, to have Anti-junk. Keeps you from forwarding tainted e-mails to the professor's PC. Big companies in town have the same policies.
- AppleNova is the best Mac-users forum on the internet. We are smart, educated, capable, and helpful. We are also loaded with smart-alecks! :) - Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God. (Mat 5:9) |
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Join Date: May 2004
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Ayup.
Download Clam, keep it on hand. |
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But if all the Windows PCs have Anti-Virus software installed, wouldn't it detect the virus that a non-protected Mac sent?
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Join Date: May 2004
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Shhhhhh, don't point out illogic to IT personnel, it hurts their brains...
Seriously, if policy is "all computers will have anti-virus software installed" then that means all computers. Don't question the policy. The policy is all. Kneel before the policy. |
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Antimatter Man
Join Date: May 2004
Location: that interweb thing
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Intego are evil. Search here or Google there and the buzz is often bad.
OS X is 6+ years of no viruses. Some trojans, but they require user authorization so caveat emptor. But nothing self-propogating for OS X. Almost no malware, period... but then again, if you choose to install untrusted stuff, that's not practicing safe surfing, is it. In my experience since OS X release early this century, Norton borks more systems than it helps. ClamAV is open source and is less crash prone. But only if you have to clean up other people's MS-infected mail. YMMV, but if you're new, you need to bring some fresh mindset to your Apple experience. These dudes think about damn near everything when they design things. When in doubt, try the most obvious and intuitive thing (drag and drop works almost everywhere), not the methods of your old OS... you'll usually find that the obvious or intuitive solution is the way Apple builds things. You don't fight the system nearly as much, and it's not just better engineered, it's a less frustrating experience, once you get it. See Switch 101 and/or Mac 101 or ask here. Soon you will focus on the creative rather than the troubleshooting, young grasshopper. All those who believe in telekinesis, raise my hand. |
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Which way is up?
Join Date: Aug 2004
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Best anti-virus software on planet Earth is Mac OS X! That's what we tell our customers. But like Kickaha said, don't peev the IT! - AppleNova is the best Mac-users forum on the internet. We are smart, educated, capable, and helpful. We are also loaded with smart-alecks! :) - Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God. (Mat 5:9) |
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Join Date: May 2004
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Just to reiterate the main points from above:
The quality of this board depends on the quality of the posts. The only way to guarantee thoughtful, informative discussion is to write thoughtful, informative posts. AppleNova is not a real-time chat forum. You have time to compose messages and edit them before and after posting. |
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Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Boyzeee
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Yeah. Funny that whenever you read some article about the absolute necessity of having anti-virus on the Mac, it's always the Norton guys doing the yacking. Wonder why that is?
- AppleNova is the best Mac-users forum on the internet. We are smart, educated, capable, and helpful. We are also loaded with smart-alecks! :) - Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God. (Mat 5:9) |
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Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: Seattle
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If your University is forcing you to install anti-virus software, do what I and every other Mac user I've ever known did: Tell them to suck it.
It's not like they're actually going to check. You had me at asl ....... |
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How about just installing it. No need to get macho over antivirus requirements.
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Join Date: May 2004
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Yeah, like I said. Download it, keep it around, run its updater every so often... no biggie.
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is the next Chiquita
Join Date: Feb 2005
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geri to my friends
Join Date: May 2006
Location: Heaven
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You will comply. Resistance is futile.
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They don't have a way to check on the mac I don't think. Unless there is a way to do versioning with OS X Server. At my school they require that you have certain things installed and have something that checks your windows installation if your versions are up to date too. Can't get on the network without verification.
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Cynical Old Bastard
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At the University that I used to work for they required all computers to have some form of anti-virus software. I told them that I installed Clam on my Macs. They wanted proof so I opened up terminal and handed over my laptop to the useless central IT idiot (I was a department IT type person) and told him to use his Unix skills to see if Clam was running.
Since he only knew windows he told me "OK, I believe that it is installed". I love fcking around with windows only people. You're looking at eons of repression getting purged. If only they'd let us jerk off. Beware the man of one book. ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas |
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