04-28-2012, 07:08 AM

@chas_m...... you're a god.... many many thanks for the enlightenment. I'll save your post.

04-28-2012, 07:11 AM

Originally Posted by ronin67

I would say go with Sophos. It does a real good job, it doesn't slow down performance of your Mac, and it is free. If you come from a household where both Macs and Windows machines are used, I would say installing an AV is a good courtesy move. It may not attach itself to your Mac, but if you need to send a attachment file to a Windows user, Sophos will tell you if a virus is in the attachment and/or file you will send. I remember getting a file once that had a virus and the Sophos caught it before I sent it to my intended recipient, who by the way uses a Windows based machine. Just my two cents.

Is Sophos can be installed together with ClamXav? Will it create conflicts?
I'm not going to install any of those anyway but just being curious...

God Bless

04-28-2012, 08:15 AM

My Toshiba lap top completely quit working right after I bought a 3 year subscription of McAffe for it. I'm trying to get a refund on the remaining subscription. Since it's already paid for would it be worth going ahead and transferring it to my new MacBook Pro?

04-28-2012, 08:43 AM

Originally Posted by Berk

My Toshiba lap top completely quit working right after I bought a 3 year subscription of McAffe for it. I'm trying to get a refund on the remaining subscription. Since it's already paid for would it be worth going ahead and transferring it to my new MacBook Pro?

Why would you? Unless you are going to run Windows in a partition (or such like) and load it there.

04-28-2012, 08:57 AM

Originally Posted by Sawday

Why would you? Unless you are going to run Windows in a partition (or such like) and load it there.

Well, seeing as they've paid for the subscription (& failure of their hardware will most likely not be considered a valid reason for getting a refund on working software), if there is an OS X version of McAfee anti-virus, they may as well put it on their MBP, just in case; even if it's not necessary, most AV software these days is well designed enough to not cause a noticeable performance hit...

04-28-2012, 11:05 AM

Originally Posted by CebuCity

Is Sophos can be installed together with ClamXav? Will it create conflicts?
I'm not going to install any of those anyway but just being curious...

God Bless

I don't know. I never used ClamXav.

May God bless.

Ed

04-28-2012, 03:22 PM

Originally Posted by Ctrl-Opt-Del

Well, seeing as they've paid for the subscription (& failure of their hardware will most likely not be considered a valid reason for getting a refund on working software), if there is an OS X version of McAfee anti-virus, they may as well put it on their MBP, just in case; even if it's not necessary, most AV software these days is well designed enough to not cause a noticeable performance hit...

That's kind of what I'm thinking. May be an alternative that both parties can live with.

04-28-2012, 06:20 PM

Also, it makes you a good mixed-platform-network citizen; as you can block PC viruses that might otherwise slip-in via your computer without harming it, but then proceed to harm any Windows computers on the same network.

04-28-2012, 08:09 PM

Originally Posted by chas_m

1. There is no such thing as an anti-virus program that is 100 percent effective.

2. New malware and viruses are being created all the time. An anti-virus can't stop something it's never encountered before.

3. A lot of Windows malware/viruses are disguised so that the owner has very little clue that they have one or that it is doing anything. That's why I laugh at those Windows owners who claim they don't run anti-virus and "have never had problem." THOSE are the people behind the bot-nets, the zombie attacks, the DDoS attacks, etc.

Oh, obviously 1 & 2 will be the case with any AV software; you can only protect against what you know is out to get you.

And I'll admit that was once one of the people spreading a bot. Not for want of trying not to, but the crummy AV software I used got corrupted when a poorly programmed game I installed on my old XP PC caused a crash & I had to do a hot reboot. As soon as I checked the Talk Manager & found the reason why FireFox, MSN Messenger, etc. couldn't connect to the internet was because I had a dozen unkillable Internet Explorer processes running in the background & eating all the bandwidth I shut-down my broadband router and reinstalled Windows, but I'm sure my computer had spread the virus to hundreds of others by then :/

I've actually realised the answer to my own initial question though; there's no profit in providing free virus protection via ISPs when you can charge millions of users individually.

04-29-2012, 12:03 AM

Just a heads up on AV for a Mac you may want to do a search on these forums and others about conflicts and slowing down they can sometimes cause more trouble than any they might prevent.