Monthly Archives: October 2009

I have had virus protection on my mac laptop, as I always had when I had a PC. All my fellow mac owners say it’s not worth renewing it when it expires? At the present time it is not worth renewing. It slows your Mac down. There hasn’t been a released MacOs X virus since 2006. The current handful of Mac trojans require you to download them & install them with your admin password. They are in fake software (poker game, malware remover, antivirus, HD viewer & porn viewer), they are also attached to illegal torrents of iWorks 09 and Photoshop CS4. There are over 1,000,000 Windows viruses which do not affect your Mac. iAntivirus is free and just checks for the 7 Mac trojans so it works very quickly. ClamXav is free and also checks for all the Windows viruses and that can take awhile. You cannot catch anything on a Mac by visiting a website, clicking on an ad or opening an email, like you can on a Windows computer. So you are relatively safe. The doom & gloom Windows users who keep warning "Watch Out!" for those Mac viruses having been doing that for 5 years, ignore them.

If you own either a Windows Mobile or Symbian Series 60 smart phone,it will soon be hit by a virus.According to McAfee,a security solutions company,the number of malware programs created for mobile devices is expected to reach 726 by the end of 2006,a three-fold increase from 226 last year.