these days, common sense isn't enough. There are sites being infected with multi-platform malicious code that can infect your machine on a "browse by" session. Some flash on some sites can also infect your mac. We are no longer the odd man out when it comes to malicious software of any kind (windows has been losing the desktop/laptop market share for a long while now).
Most site operators either don't know or don't realize that their sites are so vulnerable to attack (and very few even have the knowledge to secure their sites). SO , as a result, infections among users of apple products has been on the rise. One of the best ways to prevent infections is to make sure you have adequate protection. This includes: a anti-virus package, a firewall and backups of your system (just in case). SO far, the 2 best top a/v packages are: virus barrier and clamsav. Both are accessible for the blind and both can be setup and configured for a variety of tasks. There are several others, but their accessibility across platforms for the blind is very limited. Anyway, thats my take on the issue. -eric On Dec 26, 2013, at 8:20 PM, Mike Arrigo wrote: > Personally I don’t, but I think some people do, so it’s up to you. Te best > protection of course is to use common sense. > On Dec 26, 2013, at 5:14 PM, Ramy Moustafa <moshtaqlealga...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi all: >> >> >> Is it useful to use antivirus for mac? Or it’s far from viruses? >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
