Anti-virus for MacPro
Presently I'm using Norton 360 which so far, is excellent. Is it any good to protect a Mac? Also Eset Nod32?
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Re: Anti-virus for MacPro
To repost my comments from this topic:
And boy how they slow down your computer.Turboladdade wrote:Don't even bother with any on your Mac. It's just a complete waste of system resources to protect against an essentially non-existent problem. It's not worth slowing your whole computer down for antivirus software that does nothing.
I am now telling the computer exactly what it can do.
Re: Anti-virus for MacPro
Well, thanks for your advice, I won't then. Incidentally, the Norton 360 no way slows down my homebrew, a three year old Pentium 4 2.66 duo with 6Gb memory onboard.
Re: Anti-virus for MacPro
Regardless of how "well" the universally-hated Norton product may be running, it's still a waste of resources and HD space. You don't need to run ANY anti-whatever stuff under OS X.
Should an actual virus ever appear (unlikely), you'll be well-advised by the community long before your risk ever rises above zero percent, and you'd be advised to use the free and open-source ClamAV X anyway.
Cheers
Chas
Should an actual virus ever appear (unlikely), you'll be well-advised by the community long before your risk ever rises above zero percent, and you'd be advised to use the free and open-source ClamAV X anyway.
Cheers
Chas
Cheers
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