Macintosh Viruses

Mac Webmasters Should fear them :)

[EliteWeb]

This was brought up in another thread in regards to Macintosh computers and viruses. There are about 13 viruses for the Mac that are not picked up by any anti-virus companies. The truth is, unlike the PC computer the Macintosh players are not that close to the underground.

I have tested time over time different anti-virus software, they say they protect but I can assure you each ones have their own faults and they each have their own positive notes for protection. I take my system and infect them with viruses seeing which ones are detectable and which ones arnt. Also seeing which ones are actually picked up even without being run. They all fail :)

Paying a monthly subscription service for Macintosh anti-virus software? For what? To protect against Macro viruses which don't even work 1/2 way on the Mac anyways?? In my opinion the most tried, trusted and tested application for macintosh viruses is Disinfectant, it doesnt take care of the new viruses or worms but hey do any of them? I use disinfectant and when a new virus or worm comes out a mac developer makes a freeware app to take care of the problem and I use that.

Macintosh webmasters only have to fear Mac Viruses when people know their on a Macintosh, otherwise the KLEZ worm/virus is just as useless as junk mail ;) simply delete it - it wont harm you (;

[Macguru]

I use Northon on both my Wintell PC's and my Macs. It happened once that I contributed to spread some Word macro virus. I recieved it from an infected PC on my unprotected Mac. No ill effect for my box, but I then transferred the document to 7 other co-workers, they all went down. If I had some virus protection software then, it could have prevented this.

[bateman_ap]

I agree, the only viruses the Mac users at our place seem to detect are PC Word ones that they have received from a outside company. By getting the Mac to detect these even if it won't cause them a problem it solves problems later in the line when they might forward on the document to a PC owner outside the company without up to date protection.