 Osx & Virus Protection??? |
 Wed 27 Oct 2004, 19:17
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Just wondering who all uses 3rd party virus protection software... the two years i've have my mac i have had no protection and no viruses... am i just being naive? my only line of protection is having two hardrives: one as my boot/application drive and the other for all my music...
just looking to see what other people have... .d. |
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 Sat 13 Nov 2004, 05:39
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mbdf is peanuts
 If you're running pre OS X Mac OS and go though old files, get Disinfectant, it's free, and it just work for the OS viruses. It won't be of use for macro viruses though. It's more than enough for common use. On OS X we can't say "there will never be one", but it'll need at least some skills. I counsel people to read the guidelines for security published By The NSA, there's a lot of common sense hints and things. You can start for there, there's a lot of good things in it (that's the paranoid manual on OS X, you'll learn much from it). don says mac, for ipfw, the Apple's interface is in the system preferences/Sharing/firewall. There's settings for common uses, only authorize the ones you need. And in the preferences/security check "deactivate the automatic session opening" and "password required to access the secured system preferences". it's just common sense  And DO NOT ACTIVATE YOUR ROOT ACCOUNT! (check the NSA document for full how-to/reversal). only if you know what you are doing should you activate it. but 99,99% of users just don't. In case, use SUDO instead in command line. ishwan, I'll come back to address some of your questions, I just need to go to sleep… (5:40 m in Paris  
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don says mac Osx & Virus Protection??? Wed 27 Oct 2004, 19:17
lepetitmartien Nope, but i'm using the ipfw firewall (OS X) a... Thu 28 Oct 2004, 00:16 chappy I've been to data recovery several times (... Thu 28 Oct 2004, 05:40 Riverdog I've been running without virus protection sin... Fri 29 Oct 2004, 00:41 lepetitmartien (I'm going to repat myself a little…)
You can... Fri 29 Oct 2004, 02:31 Synthetik I also have not ever found a virus or spyware on m... Thu 11 Nov 2004, 09:20 chappy I would (respectfully) say, get Norton but disable... Thu 11 Nov 2004, 15:39 don says mac I appreciate all the ideas... I just wanted to get... Thu 11 Nov 2004, 16:09 arvidtp QUOTE (lepetitmartien @ Oct 28 2004, 21:31)Yo... Thu 11 Nov 2004, 17:01 iShawn One of the reasons why I decided to switch to Mac ... Thu 11 Nov 2004, 18:05 ourmanflinty Who has seen mbdf a / b ?? It's the only mac v... Fri 12 Nov 2004, 16:58 Synthetik That really is the question, Will there be more?
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