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Thread #12960 Message #2191175
Posted By: Amos
11-Nov-07 - 10:55 AM
Thread Name: tech: How Many Mudcatters using MACs?
Subject: RE: tech: How Many Mudcatters using MACs?
Bonnie:
She says:
"1) No, in 14 years I have never known anyone on an Mac to catch a virus, except an extremely rare (like once ever ten years) Word Macro virus, easily conquered.
2) ClamAV doesn't get updated often enough or cover enough of the territory to matter. Ignore it.
3) if you really want anti-virus software for the Mac, try Virus Barrier from Intego, though I've never heard of anyone every having caught a virus using it (but no one NOT using it has caught a virus either). This is not just me. This is me, as an active member of lists populated by literally thousands of Mac users over more than a decade.
4) As for forward delete, I gather that it doesn't work one-key on a PowerBook, but on my full-size keyboard it has a one-key forward-delete.
On my old iBook I have to use Function-Delete. There are a number of keyboard-mapping third-party programs such as iKey and KeyboardMaestro that might solve this for her. But I don't know for sure.