 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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Fri 12 Nov 2004, 16:58
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Who has seen mbdf a / b ?? It's the only mac virus i've ever come across, it can affect OS 9 or below and has been around since the early days.It will live in a program and spread into other pieces of your mac every time it's used, such as control panels, system, progs.. You can find it in old compressed archived music s/w, certainly if you get one of the cd's full of pirate OS9 s/w that used to go around you should be careful. I have been caught, very rarely though, once when upgrading from a 9600 to a g4 and having to uncompress an archive to re-install some components..a couple of launches later and you will freeze and then hang at startup with a bus error, restart button. Boot from a cd and re-install system and replace anything infected. You generally do not need to check for virii ( ? ) because there as a rule there arent any, but then once in a while you will get caught ( 3 or 4 times in 12 yrs or more of mac audio support with mbdf ). I don't know if there will be more now we're unix based, probably?
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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 Synthetik That really is the question, Will there be more?
I... Fri 12 Nov 2004, 20:23
lepetitmartien mbdf is peanuts
If you're running pre OS X M... Sat 13 Nov 2004, 05:39 |
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