We're using Symantec/Norton antivirus on Macs because that's the USGS
standard. But on my desktop, I've turned down the scanning to a very
infrequent interval so it doesn't interfere with my work. Even with daily
scans starting at 2 am, many mornings at 8:30 am I found my Mac bogged down
(~100% CPU utilization).
One option I wish AV vendors would offer - stop scanning Macs for Windows
viruses! If your neighborhood Windows computers are running current AV
software, you can't do much damage forwarding an infected
Word/Excel/Powerpoint file. If Mac AV software scanned only for ~100 Mac
viruses instead of ~100,000 Windows viruses, scans should go *much* faster,
and avoid other problems. I've had Symantec delete Eudora mail files with
hundreds of messages after finding something that looked like (but wasn't)
a Windows virus. Not good.
-- Rex
At 5:07 PM -0600 5/4/05, Michael Pike wrote:
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>As we replace windows machines with Mac workstations the question has
>come up about virus protection. We can always hope OS X will be
>virus free, but as word gets out the GOVT is using them some "fight
>the power" hacker will probably write one.
>
>Not to mention we still share the same word and excel docs with the
>windows users which can get viruses.
>
>Any recommendations on what would be a good platform to roll out?
>I'd like one that isn't going to kill performance, and must be
>compatible with Tiger.
>
>Virex has been very poor, terrible features and causes more problems
>than it's worth. Nortons receives the worst rating of all the
>scanners, and makes the system slow and somewhat unreliable.
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