mac anti-virus
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- transmission
does anybody use anti-virus software on their mac book pros?
I want to bring in mine to use on my work network but my IT guy says it has to have an anti-virus software installed first.
are there any none obtrusive ones free or otherwise that anybody can recommend. I don't want anything that'll bog down my machine. and I here the free ones data mine your machines.
- ESKEMA0
does your IT guy know that you're bringing a mac? are there any other macs on the network? if so, what do they use?
Personally, I never needed one and never caught anything in 12 years, even while browsing warez sites and shit.
- he does and we have a mix of macs and pc's. they're hyper-paranoid heretransmission
- monospaced0
What viruses are even out there for Macs that they need protecting from?
- georgesIII0
I'm too young to have seen the landing on the moon,
too old to see the colonisation of mars,but thank you vishnu, I got to see mac antivirii
- monospaced0
Our firm installed McAfee on all our Macs a few years ago. To date it's not found anything questionable. It is not that intrusive, but it does take up some resources and it can't be uninstalled.
- prophetone0
Mac antivirus will likely bog your scene for little return. And there are more sinister things aboot . . . don't leave your laptop in the open kids.
- transmission0
that's the other thing. I'm hoping to uninstall after they check out the machine. I know these things embed themselves into computer. I want some that I can dump after tomorrow.
- Maybe this? https://www.avast.co…prophetone
- Good luck. IT has ways of reinstalling.monospaced
- dopepope0
Shit, just yesterday my web browser got infected with some MacVx or VidX adware crap that put multiple ugly banner ads and audio-video ads everywhere, on every page I went. And every other page got hijacked to a new page full of MORE ADS! It was basically unusable. It's all better now tho.
- Al_dizzle0
I work at a company where security is the number one priority, and all machines need to have anti-virus protections in place.
I started using this http://www.clamxav.com/ and have to run it weekly.
I caught one infected file in the last 2 years.
- mg330
I started using Sophos anti-virus several months ago after discovering that my websites and CPanel account were hacked. They recommended that I scan my computer to see if anything was impacting it from there. It works pretty well, I only run it occasionally because there's a noticeable performance hit from it running constantly.
- nb0
This is one instance where the Apple App Store is really useful. Grab an anti-virus app from the App Store, and you can be 99.9999% sure it's a safe one.
- uan0
osx is secure enough by default. i never use any anti-virus. keeping the system slim as possible, and doing regular security updates is enough.
in corporate world, you are normally behind a windows or unix firewall, those will keep your osx protected.- I keep my mac clean (no pr0n or weird games or apps), and I had a couple viruses. My GFs mac had ten or so!nb