Free Anti Virus For Mac

[fcukinky]

Hey Guys,

Just thought I would get you Mac users onto this, having worked for Apple in Service for the last 10 years and now in IT at a school, the amount of Viruses etc that are starting to increase in the Mac world are pretty scary..

Problem is the amount of times you here people say, " I don't need anti virus software I got a Mac "

I work for a private school and we use the Corp edition of this, they have brought out a free home edition.

Download the App from here:

http://www.sophos.com/en-us/products/free-tools/sophos-antivirus-for-mac-home-edition.aspx

For more info on Mac's and Viruses check out this link

http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/

Anyways just some info for you Mac users

[Madaz]

it was bound to happen as popularity of a platform increases so does risk of hacker/virus's

for what its worth i run a PC and don't run anti virus only the in built windows firewall

[oweban]

I train my users not to be idiots.

edit:: not putting down the info you've given though; it's useful, but I've got my users into the habit of not doing stupid things. I also run them all on Standard accounts.

[Madaz]

BINGO

[fcukinky]

lol true

My family and close friends have had there machines setup by me so yeah they r not the ones I am that worried about

[Madaz]

still an admirable thing to be concerned for others

[oweban]

Indeed; it'd be a good idea to get that kind of stuff on other people's Macs who don't know too much and you don't see often... Even just a simple layer of protection. Especially the people who run Admin accounts and just type in their password blindly whenever the box pops up (or don't have a pw and just hit enter, shudder)

[bozodos]

even users with standard accounts can get infections lol.

We use Symantec Endpoint Protection on our work stuff (inc macs), its just that the people who use macs are more likely to be complete herp derps who treat their computer like an appliance (i.e. a tv)

OSX is an insecure POS to start with, I laff'd at Apple's usual method of denying anything was wrong then quietly issuing a fix for it; this almost brings them onto the level of MS from nearly 10 years ago!

[Madaz]

^^ is that what the $29.99 lion update is a security patch

[bozodos]

LOL they always are. Basically a service pack which they charge you for.

[Madaz]

hahahah my sister was raving how apple updates are free... when i saw this i was like oh wait what BAHAAHAHAHa

stupid noobs

[SoFreshSoClean]

At least there's new features..

We've all paid for windows 7 when it's what vista should have been in the first place!

[bozodos]

Agree, and most of the "new features" in Lion are things that are either gimmicky, useless or are catching up with other operating systems; the launchpad "feature" in particular made me lol; you could do the same thing in Windows 95

[SoFreshSoClean]

Agree, and most of the "new features" in Lion are things that are either gimmicky, useless or are catching up with other operating systems; the launchpad "feature" in particular made me lol; you could do the same thing in Windows 95

The difference is, as always, that Apple integrate the features better than anyone else.

[bozodos]

i think you mean market the features better than anyone else.