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From: Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
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Subject: Re: spinning beach ball of death
Date: 3 Sep 2015 03:58:28 GMT
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On 2015-09-03, nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> wrote:
> In article <ms8a9q$e0m$1@news.albasani.net>, Ken Springer
><wordworks@greeleynet.com> wrote:
>
>> >
>> > I've never run AV software regularly on my Macs. Once or twice I've
>> > installed some and done a one-off pass to check that I hadn't picked up
>> > anything. It only found a few old email attachments (which were Windows
>> > malware anyway), and an inert copy I had deliberately kept of one piece
>> > of Mac-specific malware that had infected the Mac of someone I know (one
>> > of the variants of the so-called "Flashback" malware from around 2011 or
>> > 2012).
>> 
>> I always have.  I'm not worried about my Mac, but I don't want someone 
>> sending me an infected file, likely with a Windows virus, and I 
>> unwittingly send the file on to someone else.
>
> why should you run anti-virus software that can compromise the
> performance and stability of your system only to block malware for
> *other* people?
>
> nearly all windows users use anti-malware, so even if you did pass
> something along, it will be blocked.

No shit. Let your Windows-using friends protect their own stupid
computers.

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