On 10/9/2005 6:32 AM, "james grant tyner" <jgtt at shaw.ca> wrote: > Greetings to all. > I'm hoping members of this list will recommend anti-virus and > anti-spyware programs. > I found that the Consumer Reports(Sept-05) ratings for such programs > were for PC's with the exception of Symantec and McAfee . > So the question is : are there preferences regarding these products, > or,are there other programs preferred for the Mac ? (G4-10.3.9) > Thanks in advance for your thoughts. > Jim Tyner Having gone through this recently, this is what I learned. Do not under any circumstances use Norton, Intego Virus Barrier is the best for Mac OS X, but you don't have to get too worried as there are effectively no Mac viruses out there to infect your machine despite what Norton says in their self interest. Tony