There are no Mac viruses. - igamogam

Another reason to have NAV on a (non-server) mac is to stop you passing on any virus in an email that you forward to clients, colleagues, friends or family that have windows PC's.

I'm not worried about my mac- it's other people's computers that I don't want to be infected.

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Friday, January 27 2006 @ 11:22 PM PST

There are no Mac viruses. - tuqqer

Starion: point taken! For people who run servers, you need every bit of insurance you can get ahold of. And that would be a good part of NAV's advertising: if you run servers, you absolutely need this.

To most other mac users: if an email does not have an attachment, there can't be a virus. In other words, text can't hold a virus. Only some kind of executable attachment can. And when is the last time you *forwarded* on an PC-only attachment to some PC? If you say "all the time", or "just last week", the question is WHY? Why would a Mac user ever send on an executable/.dat file to anyone? True, you could own NAV, test that .exe file, and then be assured that it's a great .exe to send to anyone. And for those in that situation where their job requires then to send on any and all attachemnts, NAV is for you. But my guess is that many NAV users are using it out of lack of knowledge, not out of any need.

Jussi said: "That's a nice selfish way of thinking..."
Not at all. A Mac user can be absolutely certain that they are never the source of any viruses without NAV, or any anti-virus software. How? *Don't forward executable files.* And if you are forwarding executable files, then yes, you need to purchase NAV.

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Saturday, January 28 2006 @ 07:55 AM PST