AV - What do you recommend?
What does everyone recommend for Anti-Virus software? I just switched to Mac last month and have been going commando on the AV software. I want something that'll do the job, but not have a huge footprint in the OS. I use OS X of course, and would like it to do real time email scanning. Thanks all...
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You'll find that viruses are far less common on Macs than on Windows. In my opinion, the need to actively scan e-mail is really overkill. I have never seen an Mac virus transmitted through e-mail and even if there was one, it wouldn't have a way to execute itself like e-mail attachments can on Windows boxes. (Windows viruses, like any other Windows executable, do absolutely nothing on Mac systems.)
In fact, I don't think OSX even has any documented viruses yet!
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<strong>I hope it stays that way. Unfortunately I think we may start seeing more viruses on computers of any OS since Java, and other upcoming languages, are cross-platform.</strong><hr></blockquote>
Java was specifically designed to have very little access to the system for just that reason (at least that's what I've heard).
So far we have two levels of safety. First, almost no one sends you code that can execute on your Mac. Second, on most Macs the email program doesn't try to auto-execute the attachment.