turns out that when i got it back 2 weeks later, they had had to put a whole new harddrive inside, there was a lovely sticky note on the top that read (in capitals), and i quote - "WHAT DID YOU DOWNLOAD!!". apple had to take away my shiny new mac □, thank god for applecare is all i can say haha. id had this mac for 2 weeks and had just managed to download nearly 80 GB of music and just under 200 GB of film onto it, organised all the media files alphabetically and got my internet and system programs personalised just for me. now at the time i trusted hat persons judgement and went on to download this program onto my brand new, shiny perfect and relatively empty macbook. I bought a macbook pro about a year ago now, id been using and building computers for quite a few years so knew a good amount about them, but when it came to the mac operating system my knowledge base was woefully inadequate, i was actually recommended mackeep by one of my friends whod had a mac for about 5 years. And you get a chance to talk to real users. Forums can go along way with helping people. If you want to look for a ways to scan or protect your system, look for something with a good user base and a forum. "I don't have any protection and don't need it, because I don't go on site that I don't trust nor do I open mail from people I don't know." And while this is good practice, some people don't realize that some viruses are out in the wild, meaning ll you need to get them is to be online.Ĭlamav, AVG, and a few others are good programs. One thing that I love hearing from some PC users is this. I suggest you don't be stupid, there are plently of ways to protect yourself and you should take precautions just to be safe. What made it so easy, was that we were too cocky. Without a large user base, therehas been no point in crafting any of these pests to run on mac, but times are changing and as the Mac gets more popular people are starting to develope viruses, trojans, andmalware for OSX, so being protected is always the safe route. What made Mac so "safe" over the years is that not many people had them, simply because of cost. Most of which have long been patched and no longer harmless. There are much better programs/ways to solve concerns you may have.Īs a mac user of more than 20 years I can tell you that there are absolutely viruses. But getting into the very obvious difference is something else, I wanted to elaborate on soething else, First Mackeeper is not a virus, but it is rather spammy and they have a reputation of poor support. One reason so many PC users become victoms is that they get protection from one and not the other and blindly think they are safe. There is a distinct difference between a Virus, a Trojan, and Malware. Knowinf that this thread is a couple months old, I wanted to jump in anyway, because I am not sure where poeple are getting there information. Again, a Windows virus on your mac won't hurt your mac. An antivirus program would identify the virus and keep it from spreading. Although this points to another reason to run an antivirus program, if you have happen to have a program with a Windows virus and you send that program to a Windows friend, it could affect their computer. There have been some Skype virus/trojan horses that have affected Windows systems. You won't get spam or noxious messages from OnyX. If you feel you need a general disk maintenance program, get OnyX, which has been around for years and helped many people keep things tidy. Just drag the application to your trash and empty the trash. I don't know why on a brand new system you would even want mackeeper. ie, telling you your system is sick, at risk, whatever. Some programs want you to download them to your system via fear. Set it up to scan your incoming mail and downloads. If you're concerned about a future virus, you can install ClamXAV from There are one or two trojan horses that have been around the past few years, that require the user to download and execute a program, essentially shooting yourself in the foot. You're correct that there are no known virus's for macs today.
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