sjbuchanan007
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Post by sjbuchanan007 on Nov 27, 2009 14:59:56 GMT
Afternoon All,
I would like to hear your opinions on which Anti-Virus software (if any) you use on your macs.
i have been using intego for the past 12 months, my subscription is now up, so therefore I am shopping around.
I look forward to hearing your thoughts on this
Stewart
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idan
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Post by idan on Nov 27, 2009 15:15:24 GMT
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Post by HeatherKay on Nov 27, 2009 16:20:52 GMT
Antivirus? What's that?
I might get flamed for this, but as I only ever receive stuff from folk using PCs, and never pass it on to other parties, why should I lumber my system with software to catch other people's viruses? As there are currently no Mac OS viruses in the wild, I shall not clog up my systems with AV software.
Perhaps you ought to think about whether you really need it, too.
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DaveB
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Post by DaveB on Nov 27, 2009 23:16:12 GMT
I use iAntivirus which is free, and has a nice ui compared with clamxav. I find it lightweight and invisible/not annoying www.iantivirus.com/
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Post by Alex on Nov 27, 2009 23:30:23 GMT
I use iAntivirus which is free, and has a nice ui compared with clamxav. I find it lightweight and invisible/not annoying www.iantivirus.com/I used iAntivirus a while ago, but then I found it was using 99% of my processor all the time. The process I found was called 'asd' or something. Now I don't use any. I feel cleansed, and also I only downloaded that program because I felt scared without any AV - coming from a PC background, where the ultimate suicide mission is to survive without any AV. I can see that Mac's are better now. ;D
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DaveB
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Post by DaveB on Nov 27, 2009 23:41:26 GMT
How strange, maybe an older version, i've never seen a system performance hit. Just checked the program in activity monitor and found it to be using zero processor and only 5MB of ram, and thats having had the computer on for a few days now..., also noticed safari's hogging over a gig of ram to itself where's firefox with around the same amount of tabs open is only using 120MB Maybe your right and we don't particularly need a mac av at this point, however if you don't notice it and it doesn't bring your system to a grinding halt then there's really nothing to lose.
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Post by wierdostomps on Nov 28, 2009 8:27:08 GMT
I have Intego for the next days - I got it as part of one of the software bundles. I installed it because it was there. I have no evidence it has achieved anything - not even finding a PC virus attached to an email, so I'm not going to renew. Back to ClamXav - mainly to satisfy the hospital's IT department who wouldn't even let me carry my laptop with its lid down if they thought it didn't have antivirus installed! On my Windows XP partition, of course, I have the corporate Sophos system and the McAfee which came free with VMWare Fusion and would not dream of booting into Windows without them.
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Post by Alex on Nov 28, 2009 21:19:40 GMT
...mainly to satisfy the hospital's IT department who wouldn't even let me carry my laptop with its lid down if they thought it didn't have antivirus installed! Why would a hospital need an IT department?
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Post by HeatherKay on Nov 29, 2009 9:49:59 GMT
Why would a hospital need an IT department? When was the last time you were in a hospital? The places are crawling with IT these days.
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Post by Alex on Nov 29, 2009 15:41:08 GMT
I can't remember the last time.... That's probably a good thing. ;D
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Post by wierdostomps on Dec 7, 2009 22:44:20 GMT
Why would a hospital need an IT department? Mainly to show screensavers reminding me to wash my hands! More seriously - all patient information is stored electronically nowadays; theatre lists are managed on screen; our pharmacy is run by a robot; all the clinical governance information is collected & analysed electronically - and, of course, we all communicate via email. Oh yes, and I seem to sit through an infinite number of Powerpoint presentations. And that is before I start thinking about the highly specialised scientific and clinical IT which operates all the medical gizmos.
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swatty
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Post by swatty on Dec 8, 2009 23:39:06 GMT
Why would a hospital need an IT department? If you think that's weird I work for an IT company that has a medical division that employs doctors and nurses and runs "walk in" clinics re:Anti-Virus I use ClamXav
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idan
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Post by idan on Dec 10, 2009 13:53:57 GMT
ClamXav is coming in clear leader right now so I'd give that a go.
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Post by wierdostomps on Dec 11, 2009 16:09:36 GMT
If you think that's weird I work for an IT company that has a medical division that employs doctors and nurses and runs "walk in" clinics You see, everyone knows how to run the NHS except those of us who are running it!
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keith
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Post by keith on Dec 11, 2009 18:50:52 GMT
Nope, don't run any and really don't see the point.
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