[muglo] Re: protection
- From: "Eric D." <hideme666@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <muglo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2002 09:56:18 -0400
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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