Most Mac people will tell you that and AV program for a Mac is a waste of
money, however, that is starting to change.
As the market share gets larger, some of the lowlifes that traffic in this sort
of thing are beginning to take shots at the Mac OS and related programs. There
were a couple of good articles on this subject in the trades the last week or
so since MacWorld just finished, and some of the exhibitors were Mac AV people.
I don't have an antivirus program on any of my Macs, but I'm also very careful
about what I download and where I surf.
Interestingly enough, one of the AV vendors who was interviewed at the show
last week mentioned that the only real threats to Macs were the users, as much
of what happens in the way of virus and malware attacks are due to the user's
interaction.
MacDann
--- On Tue, 1/13/09, Archer <arche...@embarqmail.com> wrote:
From: Archer <arche...@embarqmail.com>
Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT: ISP doesn't support Linux
To: "Mercedes Discussion List" <mercedes@okiebenz.com>
Date: Tuesday, January 13, 2009, 6:57 AM
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Problem seems to have been solved at the ISP. Downloads have been working
seamlessly for about the past 12 hours. Very confusing since sometimes the ISP
would download and sometimes it wouldn't, so it was hard to tell if something
that had been "fixed" had solved the problem.
Thanks to everyone.
Another question about Macs: I've read that there are antivirus programs for
Macs. Are these necessary and about how much do they cost if they are?
Thanks,
Gerry
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