Posted on 08/25/2009 6:20:54 PM PDT by Star Traveler
Heh... the virus shield on the work machine got an auto-update today; there are two quarantined files on the drive, and the antivirus can’t make them non-harmful. It suggests that I leave them quarantined, and doesn’t give me the option of deleting them. Wintel of course.
An anti-virus is unnecessary in Mac OSX. Like Linux and other UNIX platforms, viruses and malware are not a concern because the system runs under a least privileged access. You need a good third party firewall like Intego’s Barrier X, but that’s about it.
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