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Symantec NAV/SAV virus def

Symantec NAV/SAV virus def

For 9.x and higher.

Version:  July 3

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I still use it!

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Contributed by: lenwhyte Thursday, June 26 2008 @ 08:25 PM PDT

Product Platform: MacOSX

Used Product For: Over One Year

Recommend Product: YES

1) No other comments since back in January! Is anyone else still using this?

2) I still use it to scan stuff to purge it of PC viruses, just to be sure I'm a good corporate citizen and don't pass any nasties on to others. In that sense, it's fairly useful for a Mac user.   

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I still use it! - baddawg65

Ditto. I updated to NAV 11 to take advantage of it being Universal Binary on my MacBook Pro. It is good of you and others thinking about malware from other OSes since we all must interact with other people on other operating systems and those other operating systems are vulnerable to viruses and malware. However Mac are not totally out of the woods in terms of malware and vulnerabilities since recently people have found problems with ARDAgent:
http://www.macfixit.com/article.php?story=20080624105604884

There are older vulnerabilities in Mac also.
Zero-day exploit:
http://www.macfixit.com/article.php?story=20060223073721554
OSX/Inqtana.A, OSX/Inqtana.B, OSX/Inqtana.C:
http://www.macfixit.com/article.php?story=20060217094118908
Oompa-Loompa Trojan (OSX/Oomp-A or Leap-A):
http://www.macfixit.com/article.php?story=20060216133356985

Although most of these are innocuous but it will just time when someone will create one that will be dangerous. Malware writers concentrate on MS Windows because they more "bang" for the buck but as Macintosh gain popularity and market share those malware writers will start writing malware for Macs.

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