Re: Anti-Virus et al for Mac

2015-10-26 Thread Eric Oyen
the risks are not as low ask you think. THere are already about 12 cross platform packages out there that will infect a mac almost as easily as windows (only it still requires user intervention to give it admin level rights).Also, as MS loses more of its market share (given their latest release

Re: Anti-Virus et al for Mac

2015-10-26 Thread Eric Oyen
well, there are several that will work. ClamXav was a free program until about 3 months ago. its still a cheap program and fully usable in OS X using voiceover. Another is virus barrier. Its neat and clean. Its also about $19 from the app store. others include avast (another "scare ware" vendor

Re: Anti-Virus et al for Mac

2015-10-26 Thread jeff `greene
Hi, I like sophos, its free and it works well with VO. Jeff On 10/26/15, Scott Granados wrote: > Yes, save your money, the risks to Apples are very low. If you’re the type > to download lots of applications from non apple approved sources then by all > means buy something. ESET makes a product

Re: Anti-Virus et al for Mac

2015-10-26 Thread Scott Granados
Yes, save your money, the risks to Apples are very low. If you’re the type to download lots of applications from non apple approved sources then by all means buy something. ESET makes a product I believe and I have Norton’s offering installed on my work machine and it’s not horrible. I do not

Anti-Virus et al for Mac

2015-10-26 Thread Bill Gallik
I’m interested in acquiring “protection” for my Mac Mini; this includes anti virus and ad monitoring components. As per usual for a group focussing on concerns for those who either see poorly or not at all, I require such software that will lend itself to the screen reading environment as well