Story: Reduce OS X security threats - ignore security software
Posted by: Anonymous (Monday 8 May 2006, 11:08 AM)
I'm a sysadmin, and I do deploy an AV solution on my Macs. Not because it is necessary, but because The Boss likes it that way. The opinion is that soemthing is better than nothing. So I use ClamXav, cos it's open source, free, reliable and hopefully effective and doesn't hose the rest of the box.
Quite how these companies such as McAfee, can claim to block virii that don't exist, I'm not sure. Haven't touched Norton since OS9, and it was more trouble than it was worth then. Even if it did have to install AV for protection, I'll go with Open every time. At least the devs for that are ONLY concerned with the security of the computer and not how much they can gouge you for.
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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!!
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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
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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 -
Well written article - the last paragraph hits the... ed hornby
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