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
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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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