Story: Reduce OS X security threats - ignore security software
Posted by: Anonymous (Saturday 6 May 2006, 6:35 PM)
It's about time that someone in the media got this right! Good for you! I've worked supporting macs for some yearsand this is exactly the advice that I've given time and time again. In my time working in IT, I have only encountered one OSX virus... and it was a user installed (they were fooled into running it) macro virus for Microsoft Office that was only capable of affecting Office.
However, in the same period of time, I ran into numerous people whose entire machines had been hosed because Norton's antivirus screwed up system upgrades etc. From my experience (at this time at least) anti-virus software on the mac actually causes more problems than it solves.
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Story: Reduce OS X security threats - ignore security software
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I'll tell you that IF (& when???) there IS a virus... Anonymous -
The company I trust most to provide the an appropr... Anonymous
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Finally, a journalist who does his/her research an... Anonymous
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Good for you for printing a balanced view of Mac s... Anonymous
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BEWARE SYMANTEC PRODUCTS FOR MACOS X!!
Congra... Anonymous -
The latest "Mac virus" making the rounds turned ou... Anonymous
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I'm still waiting to see a problem on my Mac.... TommyNY
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It's about time that someone in the media got this... Anonymous -
An excellent editorial. It's good to read some com... Robert Munro
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I'm a sysadmin, and I do deploy an AV solutio... Anonymous
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Well written article - the last paragraph hits the... ed hornby
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