I work at a university department with both Macs and Windows machines. Our network support people, in their infinite wisdom, have decided to deal with the plague of viruses (all of which are target windows) by instituting a policy that says all computers must run anti-viral software or they will be banned from the network (I basically agree with this...but I don't think it should apply to Mac or Linux machines, which simply need to be kept up-to-date with patches). When it was pointed out that there are no viruses for OS X, they said they didn't care, and that OS X machines must also run anti-viral software or be banned.
The department has a site-licence for Norton anti-virus, and I installed it on my powerbook. It took me several days of screwing around to un-install it and undo the damage it did to my system. Without going into a rant on the evils of NAV, suffice it to say that I won't be putting any more Symantec products on my Macs.
I could go and buy Virex, however, it pains me to spend my personal money (the department has paid for NAV, and won't buy Virex) on a product I don't need to protect those people who haven't figured out that the solution to most of their problems are to get rid of windows.
Can anyone suggest a free-ware 'virus scanner' I can install so that I have something to point at when the network administrator asks 'where's your virus scanner?' I don't care if it actually works, so long as it doesn't screw up my machine or gobble CPU time...maybe I should write one of my own...
main(argc, argv) {
spin_beach_ball_for_a_few_seconds();
printf("Congratulations, your Mac is 100% virus-free.\n");
}
The department has a site-licence for Norton anti-virus, and I installed it on my powerbook. It took me several days of screwing around to un-install it and undo the damage it did to my system. Without going into a rant on the evils of NAV, suffice it to say that I won't be putting any more Symantec products on my Macs.
I could go and buy Virex, however, it pains me to spend my personal money (the department has paid for NAV, and won't buy Virex) on a product I don't need to protect those people who haven't figured out that the solution to most of their problems are to get rid of windows.
Can anyone suggest a free-ware 'virus scanner' I can install so that I have something to point at when the network administrator asks 'where's your virus scanner?' I don't care if it actually works, so long as it doesn't screw up my machine or gobble CPU time...maybe I should write one of my own...
main(argc, argv) {
spin_beach_ball_for_a_few_seconds();
printf("Congratulations, your Mac is 100% virus-free.\n");
}