[MACEP] antivirus: Sophos or Norton?

[radams at lane.k12.or.us]

There WAS a virus for OS-9 in 1996 and so far OS-X hasn't had any that have
worked, unless you activated root mode, which is even below administrator mode
and has to be set up specially, instead of being the default mode as on
Windows.  One hacker said that on a scale of 1-10, writing a Mac virus was a
9.5 and not worth it.

We last had a Mac virus in 1989 (except for one which came on the Norton's
AntiVirus disk we tried once).  Still, we don't enable Macros for Microsoft
Office products and that seems to be the only source of trouble.

Antivirus still won't stop phishing.

Richard Adams
Pleasant Hill

> If I remember correctly on 5/24/05 11:16 AM Larry Francis wrote:
>
>> We're about to renew our antivirus site license for 350 or so Windows 2000
>> and
>> XP and Macintosh OS 9 and X computers and servers. I'm hoping someone will
>> have preferences and (even better!) stories to share. Maybe there's even
>> some
>> company we should be thinking about in addition to Norton and Sophos.
>> Thanks!
>> --Larry
>
> Larry,
>
> Take a look at ClamAV (it's free) and will run on Windows and OS X machines.
> Don't think there are too many people out there writing virii for OS 9, so
> not sure I would even worry about them. <http://www.clamav.net/>
>
> Another option, though Windows only, is F-Prot by Frisk. Minimum is 20
> licenses, but at $2 each it is a good deal. Very reliable, we use it
> exclusively for our Windows machines and for scanning our email, haven't had
> a problem. <http://www.f-prot.com/products>
>
> Hopefully this will help.
>
> Regards,
>
> -Don
>
> Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
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