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| Thread ID: 118081 | 2011-05-18 17:52:00 | 'Mac Defender' In The Wild | SurferJoe46 (51) | PC World Chat |
| Post ID | Timestamp | Content | User | ||
| 1203223 | 2011-05-19 07:58:00 | PEBKAC. That is my generalisation. Irregardless of OS. Very true especially on the Mac which requires the admin password to install programs. |
Safari (3993) | ||
| 1203224 | 2011-05-19 08:03:00 | I just noticed Sophos has a free version www.apple.com Have installed it to see what it looks like and seems to do the job It also has an on-access scanner which runs in the background.Thanks for that, I will send her the link to the Sophos AV. :) |
Jen (38) | ||
| 1203225 | 2011-05-19 08:25:00 | Thanks for that, I will send her the link to the Sophos AV. :) It has good reviews www.macworld.co.uk Must be quite new as was not aware of it until I went looking for links to AV for you. |
Safari (3993) | ||
| 1203226 | 2011-05-19 08:48:00 | Thanks for that, I will send her the link to the Sophos AV. :) Give her this link as well On the right it has an Installation Guide and also a very good Technical Guide. Very impressed with the support they give to a free program. www.sophos.com |
Safari (3993) | ||
| 1203227 | 2011-05-19 10:35:00 | I have just installed Sophos Free AV on my Macbook and run a scan. It took ages, over two hours. Must have been a deep thorough one. Easy to install and easy to run though. LL |
lakewoodlady (103) | ||
| 1203228 | 2011-05-19 11:07:00 | You just open Activity Monitor, select Mac Defender and quit process to stop it running . Can you actually do that? Obviously I've never been close to a Mac before, but a Windows malware I've caught last time couldn't be killed (Task manager said it was "system process"; yeah right), and it made copies of itself everywhere . I guess the intention of the creator is to alert people that Macs are not entirely invulnerable, at least not unbreakable; or they were just curious how computer literate Mac users are . Last but not least, AV companies advertising their products? Calm down Mac users, this is just a demonstration/drill . |
LynX (14542) | ||
| 1203229 | 2011-05-23 07:43:00 | Give her this link as well On the right it has an Installation Guide and also a very good Technical Guide. Very impressed with the support they give to a free program. www.sophos.com for this information. She has now installed the app and it did a full scan and came up squeaky-clean. |
Jen (38) | ||
| 1203230 | 2011-05-23 15:33:00 | PEBKAC. That is my generalisation. Irregardless of OS. Bob Doe - a small grammatical blunder here, and I know you always asked for pointers--- ----- there is no such word as irregardless. It is a double negative. |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 1203231 | 2011-05-24 03:12:00 | Tomayto Tomahto | bob_doe_nz (92) | ||
| 1203232 | 2011-05-24 03:28:00 | ----- there is no such word as irregardless. It is a double negative. Triple methinks ;) (Alas, that doesn't count for scrabble.) "ir-" is a negative, "-re-" sends it around for a second chance, and "-less" is none to positive. "-gard" is not really equipped to stand alone anyway. If people are not prepared for a drop of innovation in the Language of Lucas, we would all have to restrict ourselves to "Ugh" for a everything, just as kids are stuck with "like" - which has come to mean anything except like. Why can't kids be more creative, using "umm" and "err" as we do? :ban |
R2x1 (4628) | ||
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