[Ham-Mac] Norton's Systemworks 3.0 and Tiger

[Wesley Bennett]

On Dec 20, 2005, at 3:02 PM, Thomas Haddon wrote:

> So what anti-virus app should we use?  Virex is not supporting  
> Tiger either - last I heard.  Or should we just depend on Apple's  
> mysterious "security upgrades" that come out periodically.   Now, I  
> haven't had any problems (yet) - and I still run Virex on my home  
> computer running 10.3.9.
>
> I find the whole subject of anti-virus protection for the Mac  
> unsettling because I know the damage they can do from hard  
> experience a few years ago.  I still consider the Unix kernel  
> structure an unknown wrt virus attacks, although so far, so good.    
> And next they go to an Intel chip?  What about virus attacks on  
> that system??   Who knows....
>
> Damn time wasters...
>
> 73,
> Tom K5VH

        I've always assumed that the Mac system was immune to most  
viruses that plague the PC world. Yet, our Mac guru at our Long  
Island MacUser  group says it's a good idea to have an Anti-virus  
program as insurance...And I guess like a virus in the world of  
medicine they may learn ( hackers) to mutate some of them. I had  
Virex at one time, but this same guru said the Norton product was  
better.
    It's also kind of weird that someone would spend their time  
writing code to make viruses , just for the sake of aggravating the  
hell out of everyone else. Kind of a perverse mind, I would say..  73

Wes N2UOF
>
>
> On Dec 20, 2005, at 11:02 AM, Dick Kriss, AA5VU wrote:
>
>> On 12/20/05 10:27 AM, "Larry Weil" <kc1ih at mac.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Yea, stay away from anything Norton on any version of OS X.  You'de
>>> be better off with Tech Tools.
>>
>> Ditto!  I had a terrible time getting rid of the old Norton and  
>> will never
>> EVER let anything with the name Norton be installed on my hard  
>> drive again.
>>
>> Just one opinion.  There are probably others that think Norton is the
>> greatest.
>>
>> Dick AA5VU
>>
>>
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