>
> I disagree about no anti-virus needed for the Mac. With its rise in
> popularity, it has become a much bigger target and various kinds of malware
> have begun showing up in larger numbers. A recent MacOS patch that addressed
> over sixty security holes was proof that Apple takes this rather seriously,
> too.
>
> David
>
There is no good anti-virus program for Mac OS X or Linux.The companies that
make anti-virus programs for windows will not work on these OS and the
companies that have a special anti-virus programs are joke that slow down your
computer and give you false positive hits.
There no money yet for a companies to spend millions of dollars on a anti-virus
program having hundreds of programmers and malware specialists making
anti-virus program for Mac OS X or Linux.
What you should do is get hardware firewall and software firewall and program
like snort.Check the running process ,logs every day .If there is a special new
file on the computer or running process use the search command and type in the
new file name or running process and delete it.
Most of the malware are trojans,spyware and adware for pirated software for Mac
OS X and some document cases of porn sites where you click on video and get
malware.
In future if malware gets any where close to windows for Mac OS X or Linux than
you see companies spending millions of dollars on a anti-virus program and
having hundreds of programmers and malware specialists making there anti-virus
program for profit.
The programmers and malware specialists are harder to come by than pc repair
specialist and networking IT guys.
Well these guys have laern alot how OS works ,files on the computer what it
does and programming and how malware works.
May be in the future has more people get Mac OS X and Linux.
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