Dave Tahija
location: Butte, Montana, en route from San Francisco to Juneau
listening to: Train - Save me, San Francisco
registered: 1999.12.27
posts: 261
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I use an iBook usually, OS 10.6 and the Safari browser. By the
way, David uses a Mac too. I haven't had any virus problems
or anything else of that sort and have read on reliable sites
that there are no OS X virii in the wild. At least one has been
written but it was not released.Apple releases security upgrades occasionally and I always
download them right away. I also have Virex because it is
included in the .Mac package I subscribe to for use as a
backup site. I've scanned with it a few times but it has not
turned up anything.Use the Software Upgrade function regularly and use the
Safari browser and you should be fine. On other message
boards, I often see flurries of messages about spyware and
such but I'm never affected. It's not cost effective to write
malicious code for OS X as it just doesn't have the gaping
security holes that are intrinsic in Windows and Explorer plus
the market share is small.
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Dave Tahija
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I use an iBook usually, OS 10.6 and the Safari browser. By the
way, David uses a Mac too. I haven't had any virus problems
or anything else of that sort and have read on reliable sites
that there are no OS X virii in the wild. At least one has been
written but it was not released.Apple releases security upgrades occasionally and I always
download them right away. I also have Virex because it is
included in the .Mac package I subscribe to for use as a
backup site. I've scanned with it a few times but it has not
turned up anything.Use the Software Upgrade function regularly and use the
Safari browser and you should be fine. On other message
boards, I often see flurries of messages about spyware and
such but I'm never affected. It's not cost effective to write
malicious code for OS X as it just doesn't have the gaping
security holes that are intrinsic in Windows and Explorer plus
the market share is small.
