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

[Andrew Paul Landells]

Indeed, there's no point in firewalls and virus scanners if you just  
go and give some rogue software the keys to the front door...

On 7 Sep 2009, at 19:44, Jules Field wrote:
> 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
>
> -- 
> sysjkf at ecs.soton.ac.uk
>

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Email: apl at ecs.soton.ac.uk  School of Electronics & Computer Science
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