[ale] AV software? Slightly OT

[Jim Kinney]

linux

On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 5:25 PM, Drifter <drifter at oppositelock.org> wrote:

>  My wife's MacBook suffered an unrecoverable hard drive crash last week.
> Fortunately, hard copies existed for all the critical material she had
> created since the last backup, so the loss was mostly a major nuisance
> rather than a major disaster. :)
>
> It was Emory's computer, and it died right after graduation. Go figure.
>
> So she bought a new one (without all the cruft Emory insists on
> installing).
>
> Slashdot notes today the increase in malware aimed directly at OS X and
> that causes me to wonder what sort of anti-virus software should be
> installed on this laptop. (small MacBook Pro) Obviously it needs to be
> something that a non-geek is going to be able to use.
>
> Suggestions would be appreciated.
>
> Sean
>
>
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