[muglo] Re: protection

on 17/7/02 14:10, Tee Cashmore at tee.cashmore@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

>> I am having to reconsider Virus Protection now that i am running OS X.  Only
>> have protection for OS 9.  Any thoughts here please.
> 
> Again, I have never needed it during my 25 years of Apples, but I do know
> that Norton Virus did a number on my HD, so I removed it & no more problems.
> O/S X does put one at a much greater risk tho.

I'd say OS X is even safer than OS 9 with regards to viruses. The OS itself
can no longer be touched (unless you *explicitly* give an application
permission to access the underlying OS) so a virus can only do limited
damage (other users are also protected under OS X because of OS X's user
security).

>> Norton Tools or the like ... I don't know how to or if I can defragment my
>> hard drive running OS X.
> 
> "Tech Tools Pro" has a "X" savvy version,  as does "Disk Warrior", both
> much more Mac orientated than Norton IMHO & others. HTH.
> TTFN,
> TeeC

I swear by Norton & at the others. Tech Tools Pro pales in comparison & I've
*never* had Norton busticate a drive of mine (in ~8 years of using the
various versions). Who knows. Then again, I also find that M$ Explorer is
the best and most complete browser for Macintosh and that Netscrape
6.x/7.x/Mozilla/0.9/1.0 SUCK... perhaps I'm a Windoze user at heart.

Eric.



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