What I want to know is, what's the point of a program to protect against something that doesn't exist? And if it suddenly did exist, the program still wouldn't protect you because it wouldn't know where the attack would come from.
It's like building the Maginot Line and having the Germans punch through the Ardennes
Symantec deserves a heap of bad publicity for their atrocious software.
Coming from PCs, I *assumed* you needed to buy NAV and install it on your computer. Getting that bug-invested resource hog off my Mac, once I found out I didn't need it, turned out to be one of the most difficult things I've ever had to do with a Mac (usually, everything is so easy with Macs, but getting rid of NAV is *tricky* because it gets it's tentecles into all sorts of places, and much of it is stealthy, so you don't know it's part of NAV).
Anyone still wasting CPU cycles on this crap should un-install post haste (there is now an uninstall program... something which didn't exist when I had to remove this crap from my system... see here for more info).
I won't shed a tear when Symantec stops developing NAV for Mac.
Isnt the reason for Norton on a mac, to make sure your not sending out viruses from your mac to pc's? ie in email attachments that have viruses that dont affect you.
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Anyone still wasting CPU cycles on this crap should un-install post haste (there is now an uninstall program... something which didn't exist when I had to remove this crap from my system... see here for more info).
I won't shed a tear when Symantec stops developing NAV for Mac.
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Hi,
Why don't you tell us what you really think and stop sugar coating it?
I agree. I had a friend who had a minor problem with her powerbook. She took it to a helpful friend who installed Norton on it and didn't fix the initial problem (I think it needed a minor disk repair). Norton was so painful on her machine as it would check every file whenever she logged on. It took an unusual amount of time for me to remove this software due to the tenticals.
One of the reasons some people run NAV is that to be allowed to hookup a computer on the college network it MUST be running an antivrus program before the IT dept will allow it to be connected, even if it is a Mac. So what's a person to do if they want to access the net? Install NAV or else.
theres no point of yelling, i dont' have any anti virus stuff. I've downloaded viruses in emails though. it doesn't do anything to my system becuase i have a mac. Anyway, regardless. this is so dumb of the company. This is the kinda thing that mac users get, all those big ass microsoft companies always give us mac guys the shaft. it's so unfair. oh well, they get viruses and we don't have to buy any virus protection. Its not a HUGE deal though, just uninstall the program.
i have some questions, though
1) what happens when u run a virus in virtual PC?
2) does mac osx have any viruses?
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One of the reasons some people run NAV is that to be allowed to hookup a computer on the college network it MUST be running an antivrus program before the IT dept will allow it to be connected, even if it is a Mac. So what's a person to do if they want to access the net? Install NAV or else.
Indeed.
Recently I wanted VPN access to the network at work and the "security officer" insisted I needed Norton. After explaining to him the nightmare of my previous encounter with Norton on a Mac, that I always keep my OS X software current, never use Internet Explorer, and use Little Snitch to catch my machine from talking to other computers he was satisfied and granted me access, adding "I agree Norton can cause more harm than good" but he was more satisfied I was aware of the Mac's "potential" vulnerability and have taken other measures to guard against that.
The virtual machine can be infected. If it has network access, that infection can propagate. If you get infected with a destructive payload, that destruction can occur (but will be limited to data to which VPC has unfettered access)
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