Virex for Mac OS X?

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I'm pretty well transitioned from OS 9 to OS X. Since I have used Virex on OS
9 and the OS versions before that for YEARS, and am comfortable with it, so I
searched the McAfee site for the OS X upgrade or purchase. The best I could
find was $200 for a 5 user license. Is that really all there is available?
Have we home/home office users really been abandoned?
 
Brian said:
I'm pretty well transitioned from OS 9 to OS X. Since I have used Virex on OS
9 and the OS versions before that for YEARS, and am comfortable with it, so I
searched the McAfee site for the OS X upgrade or purchase. The best I could
find was $200 for a 5 user license. Is that really all there is available?
Have we home/home office users really been abandoned
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http://store.apple.com/1-800-MY-APP...avv5UZ/4.SLID?pn=1&nclm=Software&mco=783ED6AA

There are at least two additional AV utilities I found. Of course, I
think you might want to do a little homework on Viruses and The Mac.
 
I can't tell from you headers what email reader you are using, and I am
not a Mac user, but my daughter is. She had Norton for a year and then
decided to use Yahoo for all of her email because of the built-in
antivirus program.

Perhaps you could try that.......it pulls in her ISP mail as well. Just
a thought.

Heather
 
Yeah, but is anyone spending much time doing it?

http://store.apple.com/1-800-MY-APPLE/WebObjects/AppleStore.woa

Mac Accessories\software
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I am sure some people are writing for it. To write the first virus for Mac OS
X would be quite a trophy.

I use virus barrier X from Intego. I have had a number of people send me
Windows files that have had Virus in them. Virex would not find it unless I
did a scan. Virus barrier X found it immediately. I consider it common
courtesy to check for Virus before I forward e-mails. I think with a dot-mac
account you get virex free. But it isn't worth it.

I use dot mac because it gives me an ISP independent e-mail address. I have
never updated the virex definitions.

Hud
 
I'm pretty well transitioned from OS 9 to OS X. Since I have used Virex on OS
9 and the OS versions before that for YEARS, and am comfortable with it, so I
searched the McAfee site for the OS X upgrade or purchase. The best I could
find was $200 for a 5 user license. Is that really all there is available?
Have we home/home office users really been abandoned?
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McAfee decided to let Apple look after Virex. Try them.
Sophos do a Mac product, dunno if it's any good, or what it
costs.
I can count on one finger how many Mac users I've seen with a
virus in the last 10 years.
 
In said:
I can count on one finger how many Mac users I've seen with a
virus in the last 10 years.
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Anyone with experience/recs for a firewall/notifier,
like the early versions of Zone Alarm for Windows?

While viruses are just about non existent, there
are lots of programs that "phone home", and I'd
like to keep an eye on them.

(For example, Eudora has a "sponsored mode", in which
it periodically checks in and grabs a new
series of adverts to show you. While that's pretty
innocuous, and they do tell you about it, there
are lots of other programs that reach out as well)

thanks
 
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