04-21-2006, 01:32 PM

hi iam about to bye a imac g5 with built in isight whoooo the thing is iv never own'd a mac befor iv allways ran on microsoft window's xp's.
so i understand this is gona be a big change 4 me any way 2 cut a long story short when i was running my xp i did a lot of torrent download'ing altho i used norton internet sercurity plus ad aware i still got a small amount of adware/virus's. sooo basicly am just unsure whats the best way 2 go about protecting my new mac i understand a large amount of people will say why not just stop the torrent downloads but is that really a must do! neye:
please helpppppppp
charny x

04-21-2006, 03:53 PM

Run boot camp and get an external hard drive. This way you can use Windows to download your torrents and store them on an external drive. Your OS X partition will be fairly secure this way.

Edit: Oops, this only applies to an Intel iMac. Please disregard One option is to get an external Firewire hard drive, clone your main drive onto that, and use it for downloading; then reboot back onto your main drive and pull the files from the external drive. A bit of a stretch though...

04-21-2006, 04:46 PM

Originally Posted by kaidomac

Run boot camp and get an external hard drive. This way you can use Windows to download your torrents and store them on an external drive. Your OS X partition will be fairly secure this way.

Probably the most nonsensical "solution" I've seen in a while. He's got a G5, not an Intel machine, and OS X isn't nearly as susceptible to viruses and spyware as Windows.

04-21-2006, 06:35 PM

lol okkky so how would u go about my prob (TECHNOLOGIST) i need moreeee info pleaseeeeeeeee.

04-21-2006, 06:57 PM

Spyware/Adware really doesn't affect a Mac due to the fact that almost all spyware runs on the .exe app format, which OS X doesn't understand. .img (which OS X uses) and .exe are like comparing an apple to an orange- it just doesn't work.

04-21-2006, 07:05 PM

Here are some of the links you may interested.

04-21-2006, 07:47 PM

thank u some decent ansers whoooooo

p.s 1 last thing what internet sercurity are u guys use'ing x

04-21-2006, 09:59 PM

known as "none"

reasons: macs can't get viruses!!!!"

04-21-2006, 10:16 PM

it is true that there are no viruses for os x, but some virus protection is smart in case any are ever released, which I do not see happening since a virus would need your permission to install. you should also use AV software if you are networked with windows boxes or share files with windows. to the poster saying to install windows on an external hd using boot camp, don't do it.

04-21-2006, 11:08 PM

Originally Posted by technologist

Probably the most nonsensical "solution" I've seen in a while. He's got a G5, not an Intel machine, and OS X isn't nearly as susceptible to viruses and spyware as Windows.

Oh, lol, I misread. Thought it was an Intel iMac. OP, disregard my advice