im a newbie to Mac system...im curious to know if mac users have problem with virus/trojan??...

So far i use my Mac with no Antivirus. Still good

BTW why do we need any Antivirus?

No.

Click the link to know why. Dont let the PC fanboys know about it, they'd go red with anger.

This post has been edited by stringfellow: Mar 2 2008, 08:01 PM

I don't have antivirus, and I didn't even turn on the firewall.

Mac just has lower possibility to get infected than pc, not zero-possibility. My fren's imac just got infected.

I dont know how vulnerable you on your Mac, or how your download pattern is, but as far as im concerned, i dont even have a single antivirus application on my Mac. Try and tell that to the PC boys.



This post has been edited by stringfellow: Mar 2 2008, 08:14 PM

Mac user for 7 years...no ANTIVIRUS software installed

Like to elaborate more on that?

There are still viruses which target macs but its very rare.

But i'm afraid Hackers are now targetting Macs instead of PCs

naaaaaaaahhhhhh

u dont need one

seriously

do u need one when there is no virus?

I don't think you need. Just place extra caution on your activies. My pc is running fine without any antivirus installed, so does my sis' iMac. Though of course, my PC has the higher risk

Virus? What virus?

why do you need antivirus ? those famous viruses attack windows only

Because most of those viruses targeted Windows pc more than Mac (Macs are less likely to be targeted because of low market share and thus a Mac-specific virus could only infect a small proportion of computers). It takes more effort to program a virus on Mac which is Unix based. If you were one of those black hats and wanted to get attention so that some company will hire you, you surely choose a OS that is widely used and also easier to attack, right?

This post has been edited by fir3f0x: Mar 2 2008, 09:18 PM

Thanks for the reply.

What I wanted to know was what was the virus that the iMac got infected with. What did he use to remove it?

Either way, that "No" i posted is correctly, more or less.

He got some trojan thru messenger. He can't remove it. He told me can't remove it even he reformat. I haven't go his house check yet.

Ok, now can we make it clear whether he got the trojan in OSX or when running Windows with Bootcamp?????

This post has been edited by civic98: Mar 2 2008, 10:24 PM