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Contributed by: gennx Thursday, January 24 2008 @ 12:00 AM PST

Product Platform: MacOSX

Used Product For: 1-6 months

not to negate this finely crafted product, but I ask-
has anyone EVER had any virus or spyware/hacking/trojan etc in the past 10 years on their PPC?
I remember way back when I was a young 'un there was ONE.
Not even sure it was real-wasnt that computer savvy at the time.

Even more important-has anyone with an Intel Mac been virused, trojaned or spied on through the WINDOWS partition?
or even gotten a Blue screen of death?
Not even greasy finger smudges on their screen?
No?

Just wondering-I would think we'd have heard of an XP problem by now on an Intel Mac if it were possible to create one.
What a selling point if Intel macs were found to be unpenatrible-im not talking proof of concept but real world stuff.

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Comment . ClamXav 1.1.0 with engine 92 - shavital2

With patience, and in spite of the 403 warning, it is possible to download the software. I did. I would recommend, before installing the new version, to run the uninstaller that came with the previous version, and only then install and run the new version. I didn't do that, and when I launched the new version, it tried to display the sheet to install the new engine, stalled, and froze the computer. I had to force hardware restart. Upon reboot, all went well.

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Thursday, January 24 2008 @ 12:00 AM PST

Same old Mac centric stupid question - anothersphere

It is true, macs have not been INFECTED with a genuine virus in the last decade. But YES many ignorant Mac users unknowingly serve as a way point forwarding on emails and attachments containing viruses to infect other platforms.

It is true AV might not protect you from zero day infection, but it also might. Properly configured it will protect you from post zero day infection.

I for one always install AV on my machines. This app is for free (well donation ware [I did]) so whats the freaking harm?

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Monday, January 28 2008 @ 12:00 AM PST