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<blockquote data-quote="townsbg" data-source="post: 1512958" data-attributes="member: 249897"><p>I appreciate your advice and acknowledge your experience and expertise however it isn't worth the risk to me not to have anything. I agree that there are more viruses for windows and that common sense combined with the security controls that you described I shouldn't have any incidents however I prefer to have active scanning just in case. There are hackers out there who spend every waking moment writing malware to at the very least prove that they can. Of course there are other reasons for them to do so including financial ones. I am convinced that there either are or perhaps might be some who will spend the same amount of energy and time trying to write some viruses to attack unix based systems. A programmer knows that all software has bugs and security flaws. All it takes is a dedicated hacker to find and exploit a security hole and thereby ruin the day for many. Any of them that don't have scanning will have almost no hope of finding such infestations until it is way too late.</p><p></p><p>Consider this as an example. There are what tens of thousands of apps readily available through the app store. All it takes is a popular one with a well designed and hidden security flaw and those that downloaded that app have unknowingly opened up their system to an attacker that now has the ability to capture screenshots as well as record keystrokes. Such privacy threats are a risk that we all take by leaving our systems online sometimes 24 hours a day. With what I know I am convinced that the only truly impervious system is one that has no contact with the outside word. Now apple does a very good job (arguably better than the competitors who shall rename nameless) filtering the apps for threats but can they truly say that they have the time and resources to adequately scan and analyze every app submitted for review? What about every update for all of those applications? I highly doubt it.</p><p></p><p>I'll grant you no antivirus software is perfect and completely reliable but it is better than having nothing and no one can convince me that it is acceptable to have nothing; not my parents, my siblings, my boss, former professors, or any forum or technical support experts. We all owe it to ourselves and others to have our systems protected after all one of the major ways that viruses are spread is by an infected system. There has got to be a reason why Sophos currently has over 4.8 million signatures in their database.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="townsbg, post: 1512958, member: 249897"] I appreciate your advice and acknowledge your experience and expertise however it isn't worth the risk to me not to have anything. I agree that there are more viruses for windows and that common sense combined with the security controls that you described I shouldn't have any incidents however I prefer to have active scanning just in case. There are hackers out there who spend every waking moment writing malware to at the very least prove that they can. Of course there are other reasons for them to do so including financial ones. I am convinced that there either are or perhaps might be some who will spend the same amount of energy and time trying to write some viruses to attack unix based systems. A programmer knows that all software has bugs and security flaws. All it takes is a dedicated hacker to find and exploit a security hole and thereby ruin the day for many. Any of them that don't have scanning will have almost no hope of finding such infestations until it is way too late. Consider this as an example. There are what tens of thousands of apps readily available through the app store. All it takes is a popular one with a well designed and hidden security flaw and those that downloaded that app have unknowingly opened up their system to an attacker that now has the ability to capture screenshots as well as record keystrokes. Such privacy threats are a risk that we all take by leaving our systems online sometimes 24 hours a day. With what I know I am convinced that the only truly impervious system is one that has no contact with the outside word. Now apple does a very good job (arguably better than the competitors who shall rename nameless) filtering the apps for threats but can they truly say that they have the time and resources to adequately scan and analyze every app submitted for review? What about every update for all of those applications? I highly doubt it. I'll grant you no antivirus software is perfect and completely reliable but it is better than having nothing and no one can convince me that it is acceptable to have nothing; not my parents, my siblings, my boss, former professors, or any forum or technical support experts. We all owe it to ourselves and others to have our systems protected after all one of the major ways that viruses are spread is by an infected system. There has got to be a reason why Sophos currently has over 4.8 million signatures in their database. [/QUOTE]
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