Does this product protect against PC viruses etc or not? - RobertD63

I've found another user's comment elsewhere, which provides one answer to my above question:

http://www.macintouch.com/readerreports/security/topic4054.html

At the referenced URL, David Ramsay reports that in a trial he/they exposed a copy of VirusBarrierX 4 to approximately 500 PC viruses. Of these, VBX4 only detected 68! While this is only one trial, it strongly suggests that VBX4 is not a serious PC-virus detection and eradication tool. You pays your money, you takes your chances - with VBX4, it appears "you pays your (significant) money" for protection against a very few Mac viruses. Or am I wrong?

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Tuesday, May 16 2006 @ 10:39 AM PDT

Does this product protect against PC viruses etc or not? - RobertD63

I've found another user's comment elsewhere, which provides one answer to my above question:

http://www.macintouch.com/readerreports/security/topic4054.html

At the referenced URL, David Ramsay reports that in a trial he/they exposed a copy of VirusBarrierX 4 to approximately 500 PC viruses. Of these, VBX4 only detected 68! While this is only one trial, it strongly suggests that VBX4 is not a serious PC-virus detection and eradication tool. You pays your money, you takes your chances - with VBX4, it appears "you pays your (significant) money" for protection against a very few Mac viruses. Or am I wrong?

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Tuesday, May 16 2006 @ 10:41 AM PDT

Does this product protect against PC viruses etc or not? - Wm. Cerniuk

At a certain point, should not Windows users simply take responsibility for their own problems? While it is impressive when a Mac virus scanner catches Windows viruses that even their Windows counterparts did not catch, is it really necessary? Isn't it really a 'nice to have' function on the Mac?

If a Windows user wants to run their vulnerable system open to any passing malware, is it the Mac communities job to protect them? NO. I am not interested in wasting my computing resources, wearing out my hard disks and wasting my time in the effort of protecting a Windows user who is irresponsible enough to run Windows without virus protection.

Let them buy the software and let them catch their own viruses. I should not have to pay software companies to protect irresponsible windows users on my Mac. This function of the software is not free. Why should we, as Mac users, be burdened with this cost? It is a Windows problem and in asking for this function for all Virus software on the Mac, we then adopt the problem as ours. In part I have a Mac because I don't want anything to do with Windows viruses.

Why should we make it our problem and our expense? They made their bed (chose Windows) and if they are not practicing 'safe software', they are going to be infected. It is not 'if' it is 'when' ... and it is not our job to protect them.

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Sunday, July 16 2006 @ 06:39 AM PDT