For the last two years, I've been running on a disk that's also whole disk encrypted with PGP. To be tolerated in such an environment, it's best to be able to show that all standard protective measures are in place. I've used AV ever since I came to Macs (the Intel shift) because I was one of only a privileged few Apple users in an 80,000 seat Windows centric company. There's also some best practice to apply. As you'll find in a search on the forum though that's not some kind of biblical truth and you mileage may vary. Then just keep an eye on email attachments. Apart from that, I use passworded wireless networking, and I use 1Password to create and store strong passwords for all my web stuff.
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What I do have though, is a firewall enabled NATS broadband router, and the firewall in Mac OS is enabled. I currently have no AV software installed. I've tried a few myself over the years, but have never yet come across a virus on my Mac (I've cleaned many off Windows machines though). Both will slow your system if they're running a scan though. There's also iAntivirus, which I've only recently discovered, but it seems to work similarly to ClamXav, but is a more commercial-like package (it's a bit like FreeAVG). It works quite well, and is far more stable, and less of a system hog than the commercial solutions.
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Of course, they do cost to buy, and you get stitched up with annual update subscriptions.įor free you can install ClamXav, which is an 'open source' software. Norton's software is a big no-no to install, it's very unstable (or was when I last tried it some years ago). Intego's AV software is very intrusive on the system, and a process hog, and they have been known to propagate their own 'proof of concept' viruses themselves (in order to boost sales). If you're really bothered you can install one of the many AV packages that are available, but they may cause more trouble than they save. You can of course still propagate viruses from and to Windows users by way of Email. One was only downloaded as a chat attachment, and another was only installed from a pirated copy os some software (iWork I think it was). There are a few bits of trojan malware out there, but they require admin installation, and then manually running, and authorising, before any harm can be done.
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