Recommendation for a good Anitvirus program for Tiger & FCP Studio

[Chris Babbitt]

Antivirus? On a Mac?

[Jeff Carpenter]

For the most part, just follow these three steps:

1) Turn on the firewall. (In system prefrences under “Sharing.”)

2) Surf smart. Don’t download/open files from the ‘net if you can’t say for sure where they came from.

3) Under ‘Advanced’ turn on “Stealth Mode.” You’ll end up enternig your password more often, I think, but that’s a good way to make you slow down and think before doing something.

That’s probably enough to keep you safe. If you’re still worried, make a second account under “Users” in system prefrences and DON’T make it an admin account. Log into your “main” account to load software and run updates, but use the second account all other times. That’s an extra layer of security that I don’t follow, but it’s an option if you feel like it.

[Arnie Schlissel]

I Saw this story about a possible OS X virus this morning on slashdot.org: https://www.macrumors.com/pages/2006/02/20060216005401.shtml

Even if this really turns out to be the 1st Mac OS X virus, we’re still waaaaay ahead of windows!

BTW, ClamAV is a good, free, antivirus utility that will run on OS X under X11: https://www.clamav.net/

Arnie
https://www.arniepix.com

[Tony! Hulette]

Not much of a virus. Read the short thread on the OS X forum to find out more. Bottom-line It doesn’t actually do anything other than attempt to propagate itself via iChat (admin password required). It has a bug in the code that prevents it from working as intended, which has the side-effect of preventing infected applications from launching. It doesn’t take advantage of any security holes in the OS. You probably couldn’t find it on the web right now even if you tried. It, but if you have this file on your hard drives delete it: latestpics.tgz

Tony!