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Which anti-virus software do you use with OS X?
1/1: Which anti-virus software do you use with OS X?
Other polls | 639 votes | 10 comments
Sophos AV
Hiya, we do use Sophos AV on all our PC and Mac's here at the MMU, but we only really run Sophos on the macs as quite a lot of PC disks are processed on them and really they're used to screen the disks of PC virii...
Dont use Integro
If you choose to use a virus program, make sure you dont use integro. I have no idea about the quality of their service, but the company has been unethical in promoting its tools. For example they made a big hulabaloo over spoofing macs using .mp3 suffixes to make a trojan .app display an mp3 icon to mask itself. They billed this as mac virus/trojan and shot out the press releases trumpenting the discovery (their own) of a virus on macs. Would not even have been news on a PC or linux machine. avoid integro.
Not exactly true ...
I answered "None", but that is not exactly true. I have Norton Anti-Virus installed on all of my machines. But I also disabled it because there just doesn't seem to be much point.
Not exactly true ...
I, too, have Nortons. I have the whole thing: Norton's SystemWorks for Mac. I even updated to the latest this yr, at the current extortionate price.
Norton Antivirus.
I've got Norton Antivirus...on a CD...where? I don't really know right now...
Better safe than sorry?
Working with Win PCs so often has made me rather paranoid, and one of the first things I did after switching a couple years back was install Norton. On the PC side I tend to use AVG, and cannot stand Norton... but it seems to run fine in OS X.
Best virus checker on the market
For nearly a year now I've been using a fantastic virus checker built by Apple. I believe they title it OS X 10.3 Panther. Sometimes I turn on my firewall and then just sit back and laugh!
...accident waiting to happen?
I, too, do not use any antivirus software (but have firewall - with brickhouse, and Little Snitch on) and just can't bring myself to give up that much in way of system resources... BUT...looking at this poll, I wonder whether the Mac community is an accident waiting to happen, with so few of us (and we are the more proactive, educated mac types!) using ANY AV software.... comments...questions....
ClamAV
Has anyone used ClamAV?
ClamAV
I'am trying clamAV as I type. But who really knows if any anti-virus program works. Most of the concern about Mac AV programs is if the program itself is distuctive. There are so few viruses found, we as users have no way to tell if a AV program works. I been using Apples since 1980 and Macs since 1987. In 1989 I found my one and only virus. I've had four Mac and every os since Apple DOS 3.3. I have removed Norton AV long ago. |
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