There are no viruses for Mac OS X - mooncube

You are correct. There are no know OS X viruses -- and probably never will be... another reason the Mac OS is superior. However, as you no doubt know, your Mac can still be a "healthy carrier," that is, if an infected file does get onto your Mac, you can infect a Wintel user's computer if you give them that file.

I work with many clients using the Wintel platform, one of them sent me an infected Word doc. When I send that word doc (and others) to other Wintel-based clients of mine, it was intercepted by their systems as containing a virus. So I use virus software to protect both the integrity of my clients' systems, and my company's reputation.

Just a thought.

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Sunday, May 01 2005 @ 10:29 AM PDT

There are no viruses for Mac OS X - Japji Khalsa

You have often posted that there are no viruses for Mac OSX, and you ask "Why Bother?"

Here's why: I often receive, modify, then return Microsoft Word files from/to clients. Oftentimes, the file will have moved from several computers (even the client's) many times before it's "final."

Many, many times the file becomes infected with a Microsoft MacroVirus - the Ethan Fromm virus in particular. And yes, they are, essentially benign on the Mac. However, when I send these files over the internet to my clients... it's highly unprofessional to have them e-mail me back to say, "Your file had a viurs and was rejected by our mail system."

And... of course... MicroSoft offers no help for these problems.

With VirusBarrier, I can keep most of my Word documents macro virus free.

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Tuesday, May 10 2005 @ 09:44 PM PDT

There are no viruses for Mac OS X - hell5pawn

I can tell you why to bother, because there are MacroViruses pal, pretty anoying muts that you can catch almost on any network running microsoft software, such as office.

I got macro virii while at school, passed it to office and created quite a mess for all of us.

We are not as secure a we thought we were, there might not be significant treats for mac osx yet, but they are on the oven, besides, if the virus indeed doesnt affect our system, we can still pass it out to someone else, someone that will be affected.

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Thursday, May 19 2005 @ 05:26 AM PDT

There are no viruses for Mac OS X - usofunny

Why bother? Well, for 2 reasons:

1) Macro virus associated with programs such as Word and Excel are cross-platform independent and therefore can affect your Mac;

2) If you have family or friends that you constantly email with, it would be nice to help protect them from possibly passing on an unknown virus via email by having the protection yourself and being able to detect it should they not be able to..

Granted, if you don't share Word and Excel docs between PCs and Macs then it's probably not a necessity and if you don't really like your family and friends then you can let them fend for themselves, but those are the 2 main reasons that I use an antivirus program.

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Monday, June 20 2005 @ 07:51 AM PDT

There are no viruses for Mac OS X - mat.hatch

What would you call a 100 GB drive inexplicably filled to capacity in a matter of hours? Maybe the technical word is not virus, but my laptop just turned into a door stopper and something did it.

The laptop in question is a G4 running Tiger and Intego's updated VirusBarrier X4.

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Tuesday, November 29 2005 @ 08:42 AM PST