[OSX-Users] Re: Virus checking for OSX?

[Jules Field]

Why run any at all? I never have and have seen no problems. All trojans 
and so on that have been able to get in so far either
a) require user input (i.e. your password)
or
b) are privilege escalation tricks that are done as "drive-by attacks" 
which a virus scanner wouldn't find anyway.

I continue to see no need for virus scanning on Macs at all, provided 
the user isn't stupid enough to randomly type in their password to 
everything that asks (such as when viewing a web page), and won't 
randomly install any software that a web site offers them in the guise 
of weird codecs that you don't need anyway.

And if the user can't be relied on to do that much, they need education 
with a 2 by 4, not a virus scanner slowing their whole machine down.


On 07/09/2009 19:08, Christopher Gutteridge wrote:
> What's the standard way of checking for viruses on OSX?
>
> I've got Sophos only it's always been a bit retarded. Now it keeps 
> finding potential files in it's own quarantine area. And it's a pain 
> to get it to update. And it won't tell me anything useful about the 
> files it's finding.
>
> Any better choices?
>

Jules

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