For Windows, there's more merit to needing something, but I'd get stuff like
that from somewhere I've heard of. I get messages in Skype all the time
saying, your registry is corrupt, you must fix it now, all the while the
window says skype chat on it.
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From: "marie Howarth" <marie.jane2...@gmail.com>
To: <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com>
Sent: Monday, May 03, 2010 12:10 PM
Subject: Re: What you don't know can hurt you (and your Mac). Get protected.
I'm with Ann. It's a classic money making marketing ploy.
On 3 May 2010, at 17:50, Anne Robertson wrote:
All it will do is slow down your system and throw up false alarms. They
just want your money!
We use ClamXAV from time to time, just to make sure we don't pass on any
virused files to Windows users, but so far, we haven't found anything, but
then we don't open files we're not sure about.
O yes, this has been a Mac household for 14 years!
Cheers,
Anne
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