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<blockquote data-quote="Brown Study" data-source="post: 253936" data-attributes="member: 3889"><p>1.) Sorry. No clue.</p><p></p><p>2.) Don't know what CleanSweep cleans, but there's nothing in a Mac that needs to be "cleaned" other than through the trash, such as disused apps. Any trashed apps' associated files can be found with a system search using the app's name — if you want to be bothered. Really messy and complicated apps — Norton antivirus — usually have their own uninstallers. The commercial AppZapper allegedly finds these files, too. So does Spotlight and the Command-key-F search box.</p><p></p><p>3.) Built in, with the options turned on. Browsers pass with flying colors at every Windows security-check web site I can find.</p><p></p><p>4.) I have a free virus checker, ClamXV, that I run every once in a while through my email apps if I have to forward an email to a Widows box. Any such virus wouldn't affect the Mac, but it would still be buried in the email and lying in wait for a Windows box. I've had Macs for 16 years, and a zillion years ago with System 8 I killed my only always-running Mac anti-virus program — I think it was Norton — after a few months. None of my Macs ever had a virus.</p><p></p><p>5.) Depends what you're into. Photos? Desktop publishing? Movies? Music? Spreadsheets? Apple has them all covered.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Brown Study, post: 253936, member: 3889"] 1.) Sorry. No clue. 2.) Don't know what CleanSweep cleans, but there's nothing in a Mac that needs to be "cleaned" other than through the trash, such as disused apps. Any trashed apps' associated files can be found with a system search using the app's name — if you want to be bothered. Really messy and complicated apps — Norton antivirus — usually have their own uninstallers. The commercial AppZapper allegedly finds these files, too. So does Spotlight and the Command-key-F search box. 3.) Built in, with the options turned on. Browsers pass with flying colors at every Windows security-check web site I can find. 4.) I have a free virus checker, ClamXV, that I run every once in a while through my email apps if I have to forward an email to a Widows box. Any such virus wouldn't affect the Mac, but it would still be buried in the email and lying in wait for a Windows box. I've had Macs for 16 years, and a zillion years ago with System 8 I killed my only always-running Mac anti-virus program — I think it was Norton — after a few months. None of my Macs ever had a virus. 5.) Depends what you're into. Photos? Desktop publishing? Movies? Music? Spreadsheets? Apple has them all covered. [/QUOTE]
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