I'm with kernel843. Ever since hotmail swapped McAffee for Trend Micro, every other attachment I send with my hotmail acct. from my brand new PB gets stopped for incurable virii.
Good thing someone's manning the Gates. Otherwise we'd all be in grave peril.
Those aren't mac viruses though. They can do no harm on a mac.
AntiVirus software on OS X isn't completely useless, in that it can prevent you from passing on infected word files. Office documents that have been infected on a PC can be disinfected on a Mac before being passed on.
Those aren't mac viruses though. They can do no harm on a mac. Office documents that have been infected on a PC...
Actually, they're not even virii. I resend the exact same document (.pdfs created in AppleWorks) without disinfection, using the same hotmail acct. and they go through fine. Trend Micro, and its new Master, in a word, suxass.
As for office, I keep it in case I need it, but it's relegated to waaaaay in the corner of my machine, not bothering anybody.
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Good thing someone's manning the Gates. Otherwise we'd all be in grave peril.
--B
AntiVirus software on OS X isn't completely useless, in that it can prevent you from passing on infected word files. Office documents that have been infected on a PC can be disinfected on a Mac before being passed on.
There will be Mac OS X viruses someday.
But as of today, there are none.
Originally posted by dfiler
Those aren't mac viruses though. They can do no harm on a mac. Office documents that have been infected on a PC...
Actually, they're not even virii. I resend the exact same document (.pdfs created in AppleWorks) without disinfection, using the same hotmail acct. and they go through fine. Trend Micro, and its new Master, in a word, suxass.
As for office, I keep it in case I need it, but it's relegated to waaaaay in the corner of my machine, not bothering anybody.
--B