Its been a little while since I last saw a scare story about the “first REAL” virus for Mac OS X being in the wild, and this led me to wonder what anti-virus product UKMac.net readers typically used on their Macs ?
Personally I have free access to Sophos Anti-virus through licence at work, though I have to admit that currently I don’t have Sophos or any other product installed.
Let me know what you think ? Are Mac users in danger of becoming complacent, or is there really no real threat to our security ?
I used to use ClamAV until I upgraded to Leopard last week. The Migration Assistant didn't copy it over and I've yet to enable it. Not sure I will at this stage, as I'm not doing any work for corporates who would ask me what AV I use.
It was having a corporate which caused me to install ClamAV just to keep them sweet. Since that's not an issue, I'm riding the internet "bareback" just so I can have a few extra cycles for my own use instead of to placate other's paranoia.
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I switched from ClamXav to the free iAntiVirus. I've never had a stable version of ClamX's Folder Sentry which crashed for no apparent reason on four Macs and various versions of Mac OS X.
iAntiVirus is rock solid, faster than ClamXav and runs as a foreground application rather in the background.
We've only had three viruses since 1989, all under Classic and all caught by the venerable Disinfectant. Various infected Windows emails have been received but nothing to worry about.
Don't use any Antivirus on my mac.
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