[ale] AV software? Slightly OT

[Michael Potter]

I use little snitch:
http://www.obdev.at/products/littlesnitch/index.html

It tells me of any new outbound connection.

It is a little too geeky for the normal user, but I like to know what
software is phoning home.

-- 
Michael Potter

On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 5:44 PM, scott <scott at sboss.net> wrote:
> Best Mac anti-Malware is MacScan ( http://macscan.securemac.com ).  It
> is top notch.
>
> There are a few Mac AV software but most act like Windows software
> ported over and not like a Mac software.  I have been using ClamAV-X (
> MacOSX port of our love ClamAV ).
>
> if you have any other mac specific questions, feel free to ping me offline.
>
> Scott
>
> 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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