Antivirus and copy conflict

[kiwipeso1]

Thanks 960, I'll probably take your advice as that seems to be the consensus, though you are the first to say don't bother with AV for even Windows! I'm on Mac.

Others have said that whatever happened, it was not my fault, it was not anything a AV would have prevented anyway. It was just a weak password right? And it had nothing to do with my local machine, so asking to to then get Sophos was lame, correct? And the "trojan" then mentioned, would not have been a Trojan I introduced into the picutre, tight, but a Trojan on their sever correct? And what does the trojan have to do with the password being hacked<

Malwarebytes, you recommend putting on both my machines and running manually once a month? or is there an auto function? Do you find having it necessary? You use it regularly?

I do have an insert password add on in Firefox.

I'd recommend installing malwarebytes and running it, then only bothering with it once a month, or if you get that pesky facebook scam login that forces you to install kaspersky AV. (It's a facebook account hijack scam)
If that happens, you need to wipe the system, reinstall without backups of apps (docs is fine once you've scanned them for viruses), then change your IP address on the network. (doesn't come back to a different DHCP number).

 

[960design]

I'd recommend installing malwarebytes and running it, then only bothering with it once a month...

That reads like a fantastic plan.

...or if you get that pesky facebook scam login that forces you to install kaspersky AV. (It's a facebook account hijack scam)

And that's why we cannot have anything nice.

 

[kevs1]

Thanks GG,
I'm so comfortable so long with SD, do you know if they ever added it yet? How do you even know this is going on? I would have never known.
Any guess as to why SD did not solve the recovery drive thing? The developer is super smart, you would have to be to develop that. Easier to lower rate to $28, than to include recovery? any guess on that? And it's still not there? With CCC it just goes over with the Mac HD copy?

 

[GGJstudios]

Thanks GG,
I'm so comfortable so long with SD, do you know if they ever added it yet? How do you even know this is going on? I would have never known.
Any guess as to why SD did not solve the recovery drive thing? The developer is super smart, you would have to be to develop that. Easier to lower rate to $28, than to include recovery? any guess on that? And it's still not there? With CCC it just goes over with the Mac HD copy?

I haven't tested it recently, but AFAIK, SD still doesn't clone the recovery partition. I don't know if it's a matter that they can't figure out how to do it, or if they just don't care to add that functionality. Here's how it works with CCC:

Cloning Apple's Recovery HD partition

 

[kevs1]

Thanks GG, I understand nothing on the CCC page. It's like they are writing for other software developers.