The original review by freevito... - freevito

...is no longer here because it's not fair to leave my original one-star review in place after discovering that ClamXav was not the culprit. So I'll post a new review based on what I learned after digging into the problem further.

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Monday, May 09 2005 @ 10:29 AM PDT

Reply to freevito - dozx

"it's not entirely inconceivable that something could sneak in on the back of what might otherwise appear to be a legitimate install authorized by an admin password. In any case, it seems like a good idea to be checking inside root for any infections."

I'm very sorry but IF it didn't come from Apple or a VERY VERY well known software company ON a CD I bought from a store - Then you deserve to have a visus installed because you shouldn't be granting things admin privs to install... There is almost 0% reason for any app to need it.

IF you did need to allow Clam to do a full scan of the entire OS you can always run it via command line using SUDO.

BEST SAFE INSTALL RULE
IF IT ASKS FOR YOUR PASSWORD TO INSTALL AND IT'S NOT FROM APPLE DON'T ENTER YOUR PASSWORD.

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Thursday, July 07 2005 @ 01:22 PM PDT