[spower]

McAfee's antivirus software for PowerPC's was formerly bundled with the .mac service. It was dropped. Anyone know why?

[Richard Kimball]

When Apple went to OSX 10.4, the virus checker conflicted with the OS. I don't know the internals, but the checker never quit running, and would use up to 70% of the CPU time. I used it for several years, and the only thing it ever spotted were PC viruses.

.Mac offered it with Panther for a while, and recommended not running it with Tiger, then quit offering it alltogether.

[TheBattman]

YEp - the word is that between the lack of any real threat, some minor bugs in the McAfee software, and continued price increases on the Part of McAfee convinced Apple to drop the software.

What's really funny - McAfee only offers it's antivirus software (Virex) in minimum units of 5 licenses - at $200.