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Best Mac OS antivirus software?
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Join Date: Jul 2006
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I know that this isn't a topic discussed in relation to Mac OSX much, but I'm looking for opinions on a virus protection program for my Macbook Pro that won't hit system resources like Norton and Mcafee do. I use Trend Micro PC-Cillin for my Windows machines but the sysadmin at my local college insists that I have to have it even on a mac or I don't get on the campus network  .
Anyone have any suggestions?
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Join Date: Jan 2001
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"This show is filmed before a live studio audience as soon as someone removes that dead guy!" - Stephen Colbert
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Join Date: Jan 2003
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Jun 2000
Location: If I tellz ya, then I gotsta killz ya !
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best protection ="fuzzball963" 
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Personally I find it hilarious that you have the hots for my gramma. Especially seeins how she is 3x your age, and makes your Brittney-Spears-wannabe 30-something wife look like a rag doll who went thru WWIII with a burning stick of dynamite up her a** :)
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Join Date: Oct 2001
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Actually this is a topic often discussed. Please do a search next time, and post in the correct forum.
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Administrator  Join Date: Apr 2001
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...but be prepared for a lot of controversy. A lot of Mac users steadfastly think that their Macs are invulnerable, armor plated computing monsters that nothing can hurt. They're wrong; the Mac platform and OS are both vulnerable, just not nearly as vulnerable as the PC platform and Windows OS.
And there are people who have had bad experiences with some AV software on the Mac platform, particularly Norton Antivirus for Mac. I don't know how they've had such bad experiences, since we've been running that software (always the current version) on my wife's G4 800MHz iBook since we got it and never had a bobble. (That's the kind of statement that starts arguments here, by the way-"I've always had it crash my Mac because..." or "it destroyed my Mac for no reason..." are the typical responses.)
But free is very good, so Clam, in concert with the OS X firewall, is a good choice.
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Glenn -----OTR/L, MOT, Tx
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