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Regards Pete
Tim Moores wrote:I don't know about "needed", but I certainly feel better for having it. I subscribe to ClamXav, and have it update its signatures every day. I let it scan everything in the Downloads directory automatically, and make sure all internet downloads, and all email attachments, go there. Having been in charge of a company's IT for some years, and having witnessed how careless and/or clueless people can be, I definitely recommend it for business users (along with mandatory backups, but that's a different topic).
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Benjamin Franklin - Postal official and Weather observer
Tim Driven Development | Test until the fear goes away
Adam Wentz wrote: As I point out to the fanboys, why would a software publisher waste time and money to make anti-virus applications available for the Mac OS if it wasn't actually needed? That would equate out to poor resource management on their part.
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Benjamin Franklin - Postal official and Weather observer
Tim Holloway wrote:The interminable wait when Windows boots and a product like Norton beats the hard drive to death for 20 minutes before the machine becomes usable is in my view dangerous. It incentivizes the user to switch it off.
Did you see how Paul cut 87% off of his electric heat bill with 82 watts of micro heaters? |