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Member Since: Oct 27, 2002
Location: Cleveland, Ohio
Posts: 13,213
Mac Specs: MacBook Pro | LED Cinema Display | iPhone 4 | iPad 2
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07-05-2011, 08:31 AM
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Originally Posted by BrianLachoreVPI
Well - I will admit I have not either - since I've yet to install any.  In this case I'm definitely guilty of just being presumptively biased based solely on other threads I've come across, not first hand experience.  |
That's why it's always better to have first hand knowledge than to repeat the FUD of the anti-anti-virus zealots. 
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Originally Posted by harryb2448
And let us know when you find a Mac OS X virus. It will be a word first and headline news.
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He was specifically talking about wanting to avoid passing on Windows viruses from his Mac, he knows there aren't OS X viruses. That is a very valid use case and one we lay out clearly in the FAQ.
While I can appreciate your personal distaste for antivirus software, I'm not sure what value sarcastically responding to the OP does for helping him?
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Originally Posted by Top-Cat
So what do you use then ?
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The FAQ linked in this thread has links to many AV software packages. Many of us here just use ClamXav which is free for ad hoc scanning, or I just have mine setup to scan my downloads folder as well, since 99% of what I download at some point ends up there. And yes, I have caught and stopped a few Windows viruses from school files that would have been shared.
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Thanks
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