MacUpdate Holiday Mac Application Bundle for $49

[zephead]

Anti-Virus on the Mac. HA. Put a Virus in Windows and it goes crazy. Put that same virus in OS X and it'll just cry itself in a corner, confused on what to do.

Haha! This one time my friend told me to download this cool visualization for iTunes, which I downloaded and got an .exe file. But I also got this one other little file whose name was all gibberish. Naturally, I clicked to get info on it, but the funny thing is it highlighted itself on and off a couple times and then just deleted itself or something.

It must've been a Windows virus that got confused, went and cried in the corner, and then it decided it should just kill itself.

 

[flottenheimer]

IMHO, the best part of this bundle is RapidWeaver. The userfirendliness of RW is incredible. Highly recomended if you are looking for an extremely easy way to make a website. At $50 that app alone is a steal.

 

[PDXoPDX]

Little Snitch + Drive Genius make this deal worth while. The antivirus on top of it is icing on the cake!
I've been using Little Snitch 2 for a year or so and it is a great product.

I was going to buy this for my husband, but he said that the old versions are all that he needs. The problem with many of these programs is that they were written well the first time around and OSX is relatively stable. Talk about being a victim of your own success!

 

[javierbds]

. Stop thinking Mac OS X is G-d or is like 10 years ahead of Windows because if that were true, Windows wouldn't control almost 90% of the market.

Stop thinking there are no OS X (or Linux) virus because of some conspiracy theory, maybe ( just maybe) it is because it is much more difficult to create one ... Stop thinking there is no incentive to be the first to have done something. Probably there is some Windows utility around with a pull-down menu to create random viruses

 

[mac.by.jake]

Enjoying the software. My wife is using the recipe software and I'm already enjoying the KeyCue and Default Folder X. Thanks to several posts here I've decided to hold off on the virus stuff and the DriveGenius until I back up. Still waiting to purchase my terabyte drive. Thanks for the good posts and warnings.

 

[Electro Funk]

You are so wrong. Mac OS X controls 8.9% of the market. Windows controls 89.6%. Hackers get a lot more from 89.5% of internet users than 8.9%. Mac OS X doesn't have a built-in Anti-Virus or built in security or awesome structure or whatever. Stop thinking Mac OS X is G-d or is like 10 years ahead of Windows because if that were true, Windows wouldn't control almost 90% of the market.

I'm not saying Macs suck I'm just saying that they're not 10 years ahead of Windows or 5 years ahead, they don't have a structure that protects the Mac from viruses, and also, Windows doesn't suck.

Same thing for Internet Explorer: it controls 70% of the market, and not 89.6% because of Firefox, not Safari. Safari controls only 7% so you can't say Internet Explorer sucks as a fact. You can state your opinion but you can't say that your opinion about Internet Explorer is a fact.

actually you are wrong...

99.999% of virii/malware are executable files. (.exe)

guess what unix/osx will not run?

and someone who pointed out that you need to type a password to run any programs just hammers it home. you would have to allow an infected .dmg file to run on your mac...

 

[YMark]

You are so wrong. Mac OS X controls 8.9% of the market. Windows controls 89.6%. Hackers get a lot more from 89.5% of internet users than 8.9%. Mac OS X doesn't have a built-in Anti-Virus or built in security or awesome structure or whatever. Stop thinking Mac OS X is G-d or is like 10 years ahead of Windows because if that were true, Windows wouldn't control almost 90% of the market.

I'm not saying Macs suck I'm just saying that they're not 10 years ahead of Windows or 5 years ahead, they don't have a structure that protects the Mac from viruses, and also, Windows doesn't suck.

Same thing for Internet Explorer: it controls 70% of the market, and not 89.6% because of Firefox, not Safari. Safari controls only 7% so you can't say Internet Explorer sucks as a fact. You can state your opinion but you can't say that your opinion about Internet Explorer is a fact.

Using your logic, McDonalds makes the best hamburgers.

 

[HiRez]

Be warned: when you pay for this bundle it would appear that you are – sneakily – automatically set up to charged for Premium Membership. You must return to the website and cancel this stealth charge.

Thanks for the warning, but that's odd because it didn't automatically sign me up for a Premium account, I'm signed up for the Free account. Maybe I unchecked a checkbox somewhere during the processing.

 

[HiRez]

Whoops, it sounds like drive genius is causing issues.

I haven't tried defragging yet (I'll back everything up first), but I did run the "slimming" on all my Adobe CS3 apps (eliminating supposedly only the PPC code). Big, big mistake. Not only did it render all of them unusable, but even after I uninstalled and re-installed the whole CS3 suite, and ran all the updates, I'm getting some weird registration errors and files which are not mapped to the apps anymore -- for example, After Effects .aep files no longer know to associate with After Effects 8.02 (exactly the same version as I had before re-installing), and I can't change the association in Finder either. There's no error, it just doesn't do anything. So maybe they should call it Drive Hacker or something, I'm not impressed so far. If you put out a hard drive utility, data integrity should be your #1 concern and I'm not so sure this product is focused enough on that.

EDIT: In this case it is possible that Drive Genius isn't strictly at fault, I probably just shouldn't have messed around with the slimming thing. Still, it sounds like a number of people are having issues with it, including complete, fatal data loss.

 

[elgatogeorgi]

I'm bummed I missed this offer!

I went to buy the bundle yesterday, and it tells me it's not longer available. I missed it by one day! Any chance to extend the offer...Please!

 

[PCFan]

Using your logic, McDonalds makes the best hamburgers.

As I said, anyone can have their opinion but opinion must be based on something. McDonald's can't be the worst if they're the most popular but they can be your less favorite fast food restaurant.
I could say I prefer Burger King over McDonald's but I can't say McDonald's is the worst.
Same thing for PCs, you can dislike PCs but you can't say PCs are the worst if they control 89.6% of the market, because if they did suck they would control a lot less.

 

[PCFan]

actually you are wrong...

99.999% of virii/malware are executable files. (.exe)

guess what unix/osx will not run?

and someone who pointed out that you need to type a password to run any programs just hammers it home. you would have to allow an infected .dmg file to run on your mac...

Same thing for the UAC in Vista: you need administrator privileges to run it.

 

[rhett7660]

Crap.. I knew I forgot something. I wanted to pick this up. Oh well maybe next year.

 

[Eric S.]

As I said, anyone can have their opinion but opinion must be based on something. McDonald's can't be the worst if they're the most popular but they can be your less favorite fast food restaurant.
I could say I prefer Burger King over McDonald's but I can't say McDonald's is the worst.
Same thing for PCs, you can dislike PCs but you can't say PCs are the worst if they control 89.6% of the market, because if they did suck they would control a lot less.

That makes no sense at all. If 89.6% of customers buy a piece of crap, then by definition it is not a piece of crap?

 

[surferfromuk]

As I said, anyone can have their opinion but opinion must be based on something. McDonald's can't be the worst if they're the most popular but they can be your less favorite fast food restaurant.
I could say I prefer Burger King over McDonald's but I can't say McDonald's is the worst.
Same thing for PCs, you can dislike PCs but you can't say PCs are the worst if they control 89.6% of the market, because if they did suck they would control a lot less.

90% of people used to smoke...wasn't particularly a good thing, right?

Come to think of it - Microsoft are actually a bit like the tobacco industry....

 

[Data]

Buy 3 get 1 for free, part 2..

I bought 3 and didnot get a 4th bundle for free, how does thiswork ?
I emailed macupdate but no reply still.

I also emaild the developer of iVolume with my memory problems, and they replyd to me saying they can't reproduce the problem i wwas having.

First i have to find out if Serato schratsch uses these modifiet files from iVolume or not because i don't wanna mess that up.