[iBook] Mac OSX Tiger and Virex

Eric Richardson lbyron at comcast.net
Mon Jul 18 06:23:43 PDT 2005


>I am using Virex 7.2.1 with Tiger with no problem. 7.2.1 is the 
>older version and is primarily a manually operated antivirus app. 
> It has no background scans.   Version 7.5 has had a lot of problems 
>with OS X, and Apple dropped Virex from its .Mac program. There is a 
>brand new Virex out I think, but have no idea if it is truly Tiger 
>compatible.
>
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>Greg Martinez
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><mailto:gregmartinez at mac.com>gregmartinez at mac.com


Is .mac doing anything about virii then, if it dropped Virex?

And does it matter? I saw the post estimating around 5 virii out 
there for OS X, but even those I have previously understood to be a 
potential theoretical threat that were fixed in updates.

Eric
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