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Solve a VMWare/Parallels and Sophos Anti-virus slowdown
Authored by: ckasper on Mar 20, '09 02:00:58PM

You should definitely run AV on a Mac. It is ignorant not to do so. Here is why you should...

1). So you dont infect PCs that your company owns.
2). So you dont infect PCs that your friends own.
3). So you dont unknowingly send viruses over email, which will eventually alert the blacklist sites and cause your company's email servers to be blacklisted. That will result in a horrible denial of service.

If you think beyond yourself when making the decision to deploy AV then you will find the right answer.



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Agreed!
Authored by: gxw on Mar 20, '09 05:47:52PM

I download windows files on my mac for installation to my PC at some future date. ClamXav had found the occasional infected file.



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Agreed! But not for Windows-only viruses.
Authored by: palahala on Mar 22, '09 10:11:39AM

And how would that infection have spread by itself? And how would the target Windows computer (to which you would copy the file one day) not find that virus?

I am not saying that Macs will never suffer from virus attacks, but I fail to see why Macs should scan for Windows-only viruses (other than trying to be friendly).



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