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Antivirus and FCP
Anyone have an antivirus solution that doesn’t choke Final Cut? Our network people feel the macs are a security risk and are demanding we use Norton….it has given me dropped frame problems in the past and i’m leery to go there again.
Thanks
Damon Surzyshyn
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Any AntiVirus and Internet Security will cause problems for FCP. Take the machine off the internet if you have to.
Macs are really not a security threat for viruses.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
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I have one guy who claims he has no problems with Virex and FCP.
Based on what I know about the general nature of an antiviral, I find it hard to believe, however.
Ask your IT guys of evidence or PROOF of a Mac getting a virus. They won’t find one. The only real reason to have an antivirus utility on a Mac is to keep a virus from getting passed from a PC to a Mac to an unprotected PC. That virus won’t affect the Mac, and if they’ve done thier jobs right, the next PC has it’s own antivirus utility, so merely passing it along shouldn’t matter! It wouldn’t be actively passed from the Mac like it would from a PC.
An unprotected Mac will not get a virus designed for a PC. An unprotected Mac will not open a virus designed for a PC. An unprotected Mac not send anything actively harmful if that file gets passed to a PC. It’s the responsibility of the PC user to protect the PC from a PC virus.
A virus that affects Macs and OSX has not been detected as of yet, and no antivirus program that exists today would protect a Mac from something that doesn’t exist yet, anyway. Yet “antiviral” software creates so many other problems on Macs.
It’s circular logic on the part of your IT guys. They think they’ll be saving themselves virus headaches by having antivirus software on all computers. Well, that only works if all computers are always affected by all viruses. That’s not the case. The antivirus software will create other headaches for them on a Mac, so which headaches do they want, the real one or the imagined one?
They need to do more research.
debe
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I appreciate that given a choice most would prefer to avoid the potential for trouble caused by installing such invasive software, and reasonably so due to the limited excuses for such an installation. However, in large corporate environments broad policies are often put in place which do not take into account production work happening on desktop Mac’s/PC’s. Unfortunately these policies are usually backed up by their legal departments, which leaves the users in an inflexible situation.
In our case, we have gone ahead and installed Norton Antivirus but blocked the scanning of all media drives, and blocked all automatic updates other than virus definitions (auto update once a week at 2am). I’m happy to report that we have existed very happily with this situation. We’ve had no dropped frames or any incompatability issues.
Cheers
Andy
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