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| Thread ID: 135964 | 2014-01-03 09:50:00 | Bought Secondhand iMac, trouble installing..help please! | mark1978 (13845) | Press F1 |
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| 1364214 | 2014-01-04 22:24:00 | HI Plod! Sorry just got back here... uhmm, basically I am less then amateur when it comes to Apple products and more comfortable with Windows, when I was in the scan utility I had a good look at the HD and the icons, I did not wanted to erase again and reformat the drive as I thought that there might have been "recovery data" on it. I think in the end I had no choose to erase the Macintosh HD again clicked what you suggested, restarted...held the C key for the Disc to start installing, it started to grunt more then before so I thought that was a good sign, then it DID let me install on the Macintosh HD! The yellow triangle with exclamation mark was gone and I was able to successfully install the disc, then almost 24 hours later successfully updated to Maverick and now and I am working my way around an imac which is a lot more getting used too! Am trying to googly if I need an ativirus program and which one? One that would not clog up the system and also I need to find out if I can find a program for my word files.. :D |
mark1978 (13845) | ||
| 1364215 | 2014-01-04 23:16:00 | No antivirus needed with your iMac. You are good to go. Enjoy. Macs haven't needed antivirus since OSX 10.0 came out in 2001. (Puts tin foil hat on to prepare for the usual influx of Mac vs PC anti virus market share comments etc etc...) You can use Pages which can be downloaded from the App store ( the blue circular icon on the left of your Doc) - Pages is part of iWork. Numbers which is also part of iWork will open your excel spreadsheets. Or you can download OpenOffice. I use either. Your word files can also be opened in any text editor which on a Mac is found in HD/Applications/TextEdit. Just drag the icon onto your dock and you are good to go. |
Webdevguy (17166) | ||
| 1364216 | 2014-01-04 23:34:00 | (Puts tin foil hat on to prepare for the usual influx of Mac vs PC anti virus market share comments etc etc...) MAC's can get infected, but these days its not so much a Real Virus but Malware -- and if a person doesn't know the difference look it up. ;) Along the lines of the Tin HAT :D its stated on the Apple forums Apple has installed OS X anti-malware now in 10.6.8 and above OS X operating system versions, |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 1364217 | 2014-01-04 23:42:00 | MAC's can get infected, but these days its not so much a Real Virus but Malware -- and if a person doesn't know the difference look it up. ;) Have to say that I've been a Mac user since 2000 and Ive never had any sort of malware (I'm sure there are users on this forum who would say the same thing about their PCs, but for the everyday tech illiterate user I'd say that a PC infection would be much more likely than a Mac one). I'm probably more likely to be involved in a plane crash than to get a bit of Mac malware. And yes I do know the difference. :) |
Webdevguy (17166) | ||
| 1364218 | 2014-01-04 23:49:00 | Apples built in security is ample enough, I don't use or recommend antivirus software for the mac | plod (107) | ||
| 1364219 | 2014-01-04 23:59:00 | Apples built in security is ample enough, I don't use or recommend antivirus software for the mac Agreed although the one that I find most helpful for checking or blocking inbound and outbound network traffic is Little Snitch although It doesn't appear to be free for Mavericks. |
Webdevguy (17166) | ||
| 1364220 | 2014-01-05 02:02:00 | thanks Webdeguy for the links and tips!! Thanks to everyone that posted!!! | mark1978 (13845) | ||
| 1364221 | 2014-01-05 04:01:00 | thanks Webdeguy for the links and tips!! Thanks to everyone that posted!!! Even the unhelpful ones? :) |
plod (107) | ||
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