What kind do you have ?

web730 said:
I use Norton Antivirus 2006 on my laptop.

No problems all the way except the first little problem popped last night. It was the Virus definitions only that was failed to update. I had this problem solved years ago. So it's the first one in a long while and will have it fixed asap.

Overall, it's great.
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On my pc I use ZoneAlarm AntiVirus .. so far it works the best (no problem so far). It surprised me bit though it's best known as the best firewall software around.

Only I can give advice NOT to use:

McAfee .. I tried it .. bad. Same with my friends. :thumbd:

Few others like AVG I wouldn't advise so.
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Good choices:

Norton Antivirus, Zonealarm Antivirus, Defender Pro 2005 :thumb:

For other antivirus softwares I haven't tried so I cannot give comments on those others.

After all, it's worst and stupid not to have antivirus software on your pc or laptop. It is disaster awaiting to pop out! One friend told me that he didn't have one .. I said what? Like Edge posted here that he or she didn't have one. That's not smart. :crazy:
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I know Zonealarm is good but expensive... :(
 
All Anti-Virus for Personal Home always pop-up bother me many time

I like Enterprise for business only, pop-up never bother me!! slient!!!
 
EDGE said:
hahaha

I don't need Anti-virus because it's full of bull.

There are several list that I found the problem with this anti-virus program....

1. It delete the spelling checker because it thought it's a virus and I wouldn't able to use spelling check on MS Word
2. Anti-virus cannot protect your computer, it's like condom as old quote said.. it can prevet from not get pregant but you still get HIV 1 to 2 percent or whatever.
3. Anti-virus make annoying ask you to update this and this.
4. "Would you like to register now?" It been doing every from 1 to 15 days, depend on brand that ask.
5. There is always another virus that can go thru on anti-virus' gate, it getting more smart every time.

Teresh have point that I don't need anti-virus, because I am on Mac.
lol lol lol
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Actually, I speak that for the Windows users.

Yes you're right that MAC was rather virus-free for a very long time. And more secure than the Windows does still. Ironically, the early days of MAC were more attacked by viruses than PCs back in early 80s. So now it's starting to come back onto MACs which we shouln't be surprised that it would happen someday due.

But behold, I read online news about a month ago that they announced that MAC users better start to watch it out because of recent new virus that does with MAC especially later on.

I found a news link about it at: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/02/16/mac_os-x_virus/

By th way MACs are NOT immune to viruses. Here is the excerpt from faqs.org:

7.0 What viruses can affect Mac users?
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Not all variants are listed here. It was originally intended to
reference all the major variants at least by name eventually, but
since the information is of academic interest at best to most users
(and available elsewhere anyway), it's no longer considered a
priority. The main problem affecting Mac users nowadays is the
spread of macro viruses, and I can't possibly find time to
catalogue them individually, so they are only considered generally.
Native Mac viruses are rather rarely seen nowadays, and most people
don't need to know about them in detail -- in fact, what they need
most is to know that their favoured antivirus software will deal
with them. Note that I'm not primarily in the business of hands-on
virus analysis, and cannot accept responsibility for descriptive errors
based on third-party information. [DH]

The following varieties are listed below:
7.1 Mac-specific system and file infectors
7.2 HyperCard Infectors
7.3 Mac Trojans
7.4 Macro viruses, trojans, variants
7.5 Other Operating Systems, emulation on a Mac
7.6 AutoStart 9805 Worms
7.7 Esperanto 4733

(Actually there is more for MACs but assume that it has much less than the Windows.)
 
web730 said:
(Actually there is more for MACs but assume that it has much less than the Windows.)
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The number of viruses (not counting macro viruses) that have worked on Macs has been less than 200 TOTAL. Contrast that with the hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of Windows-only viruses and tell me with a straight face that Macs are prone to viruses.

Mac OS (and Linux) is simply a better operating the system. The fact that it's not as common as Windows is not the reason there are more Windows viruses. There are more Windows viruses because Windows is a comparatively inferior OS and is much easier to find exploits for.
 
Teresh said:
The number of viruses (not counting macro viruses) that have worked on Macs has been less than 200 TOTAL. Contrast that with the hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of Windows-only viruses and tell me with a straight face that Macs are prone to viruses.

Mac OS (and Linux) is simply a better operating the system. The fact that it's not as common as Windows is not the reason there are more Windows viruses. There are more Windows viruses because Windows is a comparatively inferior OS and is much easier to find exploits for.
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Yes, right .. true.

But except the little part that I actually didn't say the MACs are prone to viruses. Recheck my comment carefully before this topic, Teresh.
 
Who care? It's like less 1% that Mac would get virus. Prove for myself as experience as Apple computer owner since 2001 and I see none virus at sight.

The only worry that anyone who have Mac with Intel, or iTunes lover that should be.

Maybe crazy downloader would more like get virus. lol.
 
EDGE said:
Who care? It's like less 1% that Mac would get virus. Prove for myself as experience as Apple computer owner since 2001 and I see none virus at sight.

The only worry that anyone who have Mac with Intel, or iTunes lover that should be.

Maybe crazy downloader would more like get virus. lol.
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Intel? I don't think hardware do not matter for virus. IBM can get one too.
 
Neo said:
Intel? I don't think hardware do not matter for virus. IBM can get one too.
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The CPU does matter. A virus compiled for Intel x86 chips cannot possibly run on a PowerPC chip (Former Mac CPU), an ARM chip (PDAs, manufacturing equipment, cars), a MIPS chip (Silicon Graphics workstations, some PDAs), a SPARC chip (Sun Solaris workstations), etc.

That said, there is more to it than just what chip there is, but an architecture difference at the CPU level would essentially prevent any compiled virus from working (scripted viruses, such as macroviruses, are another story). If someone ports Wine to the new Intel Macs, I imagine a few Windows viruses will start to work on Macs if they use libraries compatible with Wine and don't rely heavily on Outlook or Outlook Express to work.
 
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