Yeah - should be fine. Just make sure you don't log into your banks from any dubious email links...often scammers send out fraudulent eMails pretending to be authentic letters from your bank and set up websites to trick you into giving them your account data.
Just log on through your banks regular webpage by manually entering the url in your browser.
It's also always a good idea to make sure you have all the latest system updates (just run 'Software update' from the apple menu).
Ive got Norton AntiVirus 10 for the Mac, its works perfect havn't seen any slow down (if got PowerMac G5 Quad and Ibook G4). The design of the software is really good plus widget is well designed). Easy to use and easy to update, personally i cant fault it. Its abit expensive i think but at least you have that feeling that your machine is running some sort of protection.
ENABLE Router (with Firewall) + ENABLE Apple Inbuilt Firewall + ENABLE Norton AV 10 Mac plus update + UPDATE Apple Mac Software Update = GOOD LEVEL OF PROTECTION
Mac Specs: White 2ghz Core Duo Macbook, 2ghz RAM, 60gb Hard drive, SuperDrive
Just to let you know. I wouldn't find the need to run A/V Software, and not only does norton antivirus bloat your computer's resources, but it also has major flaws. [read this article] http://www.macfixit.com/article.php?...51221093111211
I had virex on my imac 10.2.8 and brickhouse firewall. I have deleted Virex and Brickhouse as my macine is running slow, Safari will not boot up and I cannot download automatic updates anymore. I tried to swith on the inbuilt firewall but it says I cannot as I have a firewall running! How can this be when I have delted Brickhouse?
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Originally Posted by schweb
Many many switchers coming from the Windows world are always concerned about whether or not they need a firewall or antivirus software for their Mac. The short answer: maybe, it's a personal choice.
Having a firewall is always a necessity to protect your computer and network from hackers who could steal data or harm your machines. Luckily Mac OSX has it's own built-in firewall that can be activated in the Sharing pref pane in System Preferences.
Now when it comes to antivirus software it gets trickier and there isn't as much agreement. Here are the normal pros and cons...
Pros:
If you use the machine in a mixed network antivirus software will help stop you from further infecting the network. While your Mac can't be infected by a Windows virus, it can pass it on.
Even though there is not a virus for Mac OSX that doesn't mean there will never be one. Having antivirus software installed makes you proactive in your protection.
Most users see no performance decrease or issues when running antivirus software.
Cons:
There has never been a virus or spyware released for Mac OSX to date.
It eats up resources on some machines
In certain situations it could cause stability issues or kernel panics
As you can see there are good reasons on both sides so in the end you need to make up your mind on which your most comfortable with.
If you decide to add an antivirus program to your computer here are some that are available for OSX:
Anyone know of an Antivirus solution that is designed to run on the Intel Macs as an Universal Application. Want to make sure I have something before someone makes an actual MacOS X virus.
If you had virus protection it would pop up and tell you.
If you didn't have protection, a windows virus can't hurt a Mac. Mac users are bridge jumping because of this worm, virus, trojan or whatever it is.. I would guess for any user to get infected he has to be drunk or something, first off your using ichat, you get a file that you didn't ask for, you double click on the file, your password thing pops up, that in itself tells you something is wrong. I would doubt if AV companies didn't invent this LOL I guess my pc paranoia is showing.
If you had virus protection it would pop up and tell you.
If you didn't have protection, a windows virus can't hurt a Mac. Mac users are bridge jumping because of this worm, virus, trojan or whatever it is.. I would guess for any user to get infected he has to be drunk or something, first off your using ichat, you get a file that you didn't ask for, you double click on the file, your password thing pops up, that in itself tells you something is wrong. I would doubt if AV companies didn't invent this LOL I guess my pc paranoia is showing.
ClamXav or Sophos.....Which is better. I have both installed. They both seem to work fine. ClamXav finds things in the cache, I haven't notice Sophos finding those things.
ClamXav or Sophos.....Which is better. I have both installed. They both seem to work fine. ClamXav finds things in the cache, I haven't notice Sophos finding those things.
I recommend ClamXav. It was more reliable and I just liked it better
ClamXav or Sophos.....Which is better. I have both installed. They both seem to work fine. ClamXav finds things in the cache, I haven't notice Sophos finding those things.
I have tested both and found that ClamXav finds much more.
None of the windows viruses bother a Mac, but it is good to know your not passing them along.
Be sure to scan any .doc files you may download because these can contain macroviruses.
I have also had problems with Sophos causing problems in OS Tiger.
ClamXav- never any problems.
