General Mac hardware discussions forum: Macbook Virus Protection?

I was in the same boat that you are in. I ran my Mac for a month without any virus protection. I got a little scared and I got Norton Virus protection. In the several months since I have Norton, I have not seen anything on my system. I will not renew Norton.

I do have one more question... what do you think is the easiest way to transport everything from my old PC to my new mac?

Thanks

Hi AE,

I moved recently from PC to Mac to so maybe as one novice to another I may be able to share a couple of things.

I actually bought a 'mac mini' and converted my PC to a pure Home Entertainment PC free of the constraints of antivirus/spyware etc.

I bought the mac mini as I had all the peripherals and had read it was the perfect addendum to someone like myself who had a pretty up to date pc.

I love my mac, turning it on and off is a bit like using a light switch (well, maybe a fluoro but compared to windows...).

I did however install PARRALLELS DESKTOP for mac (version 3.0) and it is the most amazing thing and I really recommend it.It sells for around $144.00 AU and it allows you to run windows and mac at the same time and even drop and drag files between the 2.

I haven't discovered all its workings but I know there is a thing called 'transporter' which I think help transports files from your pc to mac - I haven't used it but I know parallels has the facility to do it.

My mini has a 60 gig hard drive so I bought a 500gig external and formatted it for mac (see disc utility).

That way you can read and write not just read.

The only other thing I can think of is to download flip for mac (free) so you can play your windows media files and if you don't want to splash out on mac office there is a free Open Office for mac (if you install parallels you can always just open all your windows files that way - its a truly amazing programme!)

The only glitch I've had is using my Bigpond Broadband Wireless Modem - an updated software package has been released by bigpond but it still needs work.

Hope something here helps

I wonder if you would be so kind as to run your last post by us again, this time using whole words that are found in the English language.

Explain why you believe that you have 12/V . Did some AV software inform you of this? If so, what software is it?


I'll mention this again: There are currently NO (none, zilch, nada,zero) Virus's in the wild that affect the Mac OS X operating system.

If you know better and can give real examples, we would all be pleased to hear about them.

P

1) you don't need to worry about any virus when using OS X!
2) Norton is evil: it's a very, very dangerous tool to use on any OSX machine. It can trash your file system in very short order. -Specifically, the root-level files Norton installs -- "Filesaver" and a bunch of daemons to control it -- cause more problems than they fix. Ditto the virus protection, etc. - Also, their directory repair is poor and destroys data other utility programs need. DiskWarrior even has a message that says something along the lines of "We cannot repair this directory -- some other program (Norton) has tampered with the directory structure." The product has been *discontinued* Here's an article from MacWorld, in 2004: http://www.macworld.com/news/2004/04/14/symantec/?lsrc=mcrss-0404 "Symantec Inc. on Wednesday confirmed plans to discontinue the Macintosh versions of its Norton Utilities and SystemWorks packages and instead will focus its efforts on developing its Internet security software." Norton Utilities is dead, and that's fine. Norton Antivirus is still alive, but its only real job right now is to catch Windows viruses.
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Read http://forums.cnet.com/5208-7582_102-0.html?forumID=28&threadID=273854&messageID=2642239

And the ongoing issue appears to be "How to Deprogram Windows Users."

This issue extends to cell phones. It's sad the holes have otherwise normal people looking for a firewall for their cell phone.

Bob

you can trust mac..its also a worthy

I have had a mac for the last 10 years and you do not need norton or any security software