Mac Antivirus Software – Revisited

As it so happens, the review of Mac antivirus software I posted previously is to be supplanted by this comment:

I have since installed a server system here with G5 X-Serves and use ClamAV along with other Unix-like tools to catch intrusion, DOS and instrusion attacks. This works far better than any other commercial, standalone method including a network “appliance” i had gotten as an evaluation unit which was much more trouble than it was worth.

For any PCs on my network, I now recommend BitDefender Pro with the Network Administrator console simply because it’s generally effective and well-reviewed. Spyware and malware are better handled by open-source methods and by Trend Micro’s free tools.

In other words, the other items mentioned were evaluated and fell incredibly far short of function and should be ignored. Norton especially should be avoided since ALL of their products have caused no end of problems, including registry “corruption” on at least one system here and are almost impossible to uninstall. Might as well have spyware. Really, Symantec: shame on you.

Obviously, assume that everything hitting your network and, by extension, your e-mail, is suspect. Firewall and antivirus is REQUIRED for anyone with a computer attached to a network or to the internet. REQUIRED, understand? As a user, you have a communal responsibility to stop your computer from becoming a vehicle for destruction and anarchy by idiot “hackerz” who have nothing but time and an excruciating need for identity validation through their grandiose schemes. Screw them before they screw you – and me.