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Originally Posted by Chris
As someone posted earlier, I could go to the trouble of installing software long enough to do a complete sweep, thereby proving the system is clean. But the absolutely tiny amount of malware that can even install itself on OSX simply doesn't justify the effort - hence my analogy with certain vaccinations earlier on. Why get yourself injected against typhoid if you're never going to travel anywhere you can get it?
As for viruses transferred ... what, exactly? And how? jpegs originated on my own camera and edited on my own machine? Word documents originated in NeoOffice in ODT format and saved off as MS .doc? Mpegs created in my copy of iMovie? I'm happy to be educated otherwise, but at the moment my understanding is that none of those poses a credible means of unwittingly transferring any kind of malware to anyone.
You are going to have a very, very hard time convincing me that there is any need to engage the same level of paranoia in keeping my Mac free of nasties as is clearly necessary when managing a Windows-based machine.  |
of course you do realise that if a virus or malware is installed on your Mac installing an AV or Malware program may well be rendered useless by the actions of the virus giving you a clean result that actually isnt correct
A virus could have been transferred to your machine from an image on a web page or a line of code added to a video on a website anywhere
Chances are you have never had a virus but without any form of detection you can not say that you are 100% definate you have not only that you believe you have not
You do not need to be paranoid to keep a windows machine clean you need to be careful and clever