[iBook] Mac OSX Tiger and Virex

[Brian Olesky]

On 7/18/05 4:07 PM, "David Harris" <dmichaelharris at earthlink.net> wrote:

> 
> On Jul 18, 2005, at 7:40 AM, Alexandre Leroux wrote:
> 
>> On 7/17/05, Gregory Martinez <gregmartinez at mac.com> wrote:
>>> background scans.   Version 7.5 has had a lot of problems with OS X,
>>> and
>> 
>> I confirm. I removed Virex 7.5 because my iBook's cpu was running at
>> full speed because of it. Apple ask users to switch back to 7.2, but
>> hey, no virus, so no need for an antivirus ;-)
> 
> Hi:
> 
> And now the .Mac website doesn't even mention virus protection in any
> way.  I guess that virus protection on .Mac has gone the way of the
> dodo.
> 
> What other virus protection is out there that's worth talking about?
> 
> dmjh
> 
For me, .mac went the way of the dodo over a year ago. IMHO, not much for
the money. As for virus protection, I've had Macs for about 20 years, I've
never used a virus program and never had a virus. So why bother? Isn't that
one of the reasons we love Macs? No viruses?

Brian