[G4] Virus and Spy Ware detectors

Peter yellowdogemail-discard at yahoo.co.uk
Wed Jun 22 03:44:15 PDT 2005


At 06:15 -0400 22/6/05, Tim Collier wrote:
>My opinion only.....   If you're just a regular end user like most 
>of us, there is no need for any of this stuff.  At least so far. 
>What the future holds is yet to be determined.  If you use .Mac, you 
>can download Virex for free (not exactly free as you pay for .Mac), 
>but you might also want to just turn on the firewall.  10.4 has a 
>neat little addition to the firewall.....it's called 'stealth mode'. 
>How good it is, I can't say.
>But I can say this, I've been a Mac user for 5 years now and use the 
>net quite a bit and do quite a few online transactions.  Never had a 
>problem.
>
>Tim
>On Jun 21, 2005, at 2:21 PM, rich northouse wrote:
>
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>>>_Hi Folks,
>>>
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>>Calling on the group's wisdom again -- What is the best Virus and 
>>Spy Ware detector for a Mac?  Any good free stuff?
>>
>>Rich

You may wish to consider "Little Snitch"... 
<http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/10426>


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