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 Antivirus for Mac?.., is it nessasary??

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stringfellow
post Mar 2 2008, 08:00 PM

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No.

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

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post Mar 2 2008, 08:14 PM

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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. laugh.gif



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post Mar 2 2008, 09:43 PM

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Either way, that "No" i posted is correctly, more or less. biggrin.gif
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post Mar 2 2008, 10:31 PM

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Good point, civic.

Plus, how was it identified as a Trojan. Using what app? But most importantly, as what Civic said, while running which OS?

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post Mar 3 2008, 01:14 AM

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QUOTE(kapalterbang_737 @ Mar 3 2008, 12:26 AM)
i read here that there is a trojan in mac~
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And a very good counter-reply from DJSpinnet:-
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No, that's a trojan, not a virus.

A virus self-replicates on itself. A Trojan needs to run to actually do something. As I can see the trojan is inside an application archive called FixTunes.

And besides, no one said macs are fool-proof. No Operating Systems are. It's just that Macs are harder to "attack".

Besides, another thing to consider is the virus/trojan a Mac virus or trojan?

Sometimes a mac can have a lot of redundant virii/trojans sitting inside your mac which are windows viruses/trojans who do nothing but sit pretty inside your mac due to file sharing with windows users, emails etc. They don't attack Macs but you can scan and remove them.

So before you spread unnecessary FUD (Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt), do your own research and understand the state of Mac Security before screaming "OMIGOSH GOT VIRUS!! GOT VIRUS" (ok, a bit exaggerated, but you get my point).



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post Mar 4 2008, 12:30 AM

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On Microsoft Messenger or Windows Live Messenger, no doubt? Remnants of the filth that is only available from that Redmond monopolists. Im not surprised at all.

 

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