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. Users can subscribe to the List by sending an email to <muglo-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> with 'subscribe' in the Subject field Users can unsubscribe from the List by sending an email to <muglo-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> with 'unsubscribe' in the Subject field Users must send messages or replies to <muglo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> All messages are archived so that you can view them at any time by going to <//www.freelists.org/archives/muglo> Problems concerning use of the FreeList should be sent to <paulthomas@xxxxxxx> Don't forget to periodically check our web site at: http://muglo.on.ca/