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Hello there. I'm fairly new to the Mac world. I have lots of PC experience but made the switch back in November and, of course, not looked back. I am aware macs seem to escape viri but it seems that macs are becoming popular with the advent of the iPod and that people may start to write mac viri if they haven't already.
I have been reading threads about AV software and it seems that Virex is to be avoided at the moment and ClamAV and VirusBarrierX are the favoured ones. I have a lot of questions...
1. Has anyone installed ClamAV on a 1.5 ghz PowerBook or similar spec?, Did its CPU usage cause significant slowdown of the mac? I connect with other PC laptops at home via ethernet and we share broadband internet connections both ways. They have Norton for PC but don't always update definitions (silly I know). So any advice on how good the above AV programs are at finding PC viruses would also be great!
2. The consensus at the moment seems that Virex is unstable, uses a lot of CPU and not too effective. Is this still true? I take it Mcaffee will eventually release a better build now that Tiger is released. (I don't have Tiger yet though)
3. I got a 60-day trial period of .mac yesterday but cannot see anywhere where to get Virex. Am I just not looking in the right place? Maybe this is only available to full subscribers? Or have Apple froze the availabillity of Virex until the new "Tiger" Virex build is out? It sounds like Virex isn't much cop at the moment but I trust that if Mcaffee have the backing from Apple/.mac they will work together to produce a decent version.
4. I was also wondering if you could use any of these programs to scan the PC drives over my network for viruses that their PC's can't find?
If anyone could help me with any of these questions I would be grateful...
I have been reading threads about AV software and it seems that Virex is to be avoided at the moment and ClamAV and VirusBarrierX are the favoured ones. I have a lot of questions...
1. Has anyone installed ClamAV on a 1.5 ghz PowerBook or similar spec?, Did its CPU usage cause significant slowdown of the mac? I connect with other PC laptops at home via ethernet and we share broadband internet connections both ways. They have Norton for PC but don't always update definitions (silly I know). So any advice on how good the above AV programs are at finding PC viruses would also be great!
2. The consensus at the moment seems that Virex is unstable, uses a lot of CPU and not too effective. Is this still true? I take it Mcaffee will eventually release a better build now that Tiger is released. (I don't have Tiger yet though)
3. I got a 60-day trial period of .mac yesterday but cannot see anywhere where to get Virex. Am I just not looking in the right place? Maybe this is only available to full subscribers? Or have Apple froze the availabillity of Virex until the new "Tiger" Virex build is out? It sounds like Virex isn't much cop at the moment but I trust that if Mcaffee have the backing from Apple/.mac they will work together to produce a decent version.
4. I was also wondering if you could use any of these programs to scan the PC drives over my network for viruses that their PC's can't find?
If anyone could help me with any of these questions I would be grateful...