Re: One More Time: Mac Antivirus Software?

From	Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.mac.system
Subject	Re: One More Time: Mac Antivirus Software?
Date	2017-03-01 18:53 +0000
Organization	Miskatonic U
Message-ID	<slrnobe694.26dp.g.kreme@snow.local> (permalink)
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In message <o96t4b$r7t$1@dont-email.me> Fred Moore <fmoore@gfcn.huh> wrote:
> On 2/28/17 5:37 a, Lewis wrote:
>> In message <o91nab$cn8$1@dont-email.me> Fred Moore <fmoore@gfcn.huh> wrote:
>>> I couldn't find Silent Gaming Mode on my Mac Avast. At least it doesn't
>>> have any dancing popups, but it does open with a window with a big red X
>>> in a circle and 'You Are Not Protected!' since I haven't bought their
>>> services and have turned off auto-update.
>>
>> Turning off auto-update on an Anti Virus program is... well, tehre's no
>> other word for it but asinine. If you're going to bother running you,
>> you have to keep it up-to-date.

> I only run Avast manually. I always update the app and the defns before 
> running it, so I don't see a problem.

>> And that is the only reason for the red X. You do not have to buy any of
>> Avast's addons.

> But it's their _presumption_ that I'm not protected because I don't run 
> it automatically, which I think goes out and updates the definitions 
> without my advance approval.

If the definitions are not up to date, you are not protected. Out of
date antivirus is worse than no anti-virus at all.

>> Console logs are unlikely to show you that. pmset will tell you,
>> however.

> I'm somewhat familiar with pmset for setting sleep etc. How do you get 
> it to tell you what is going on?

pmset -g will show if a process is preventing sleep.

-- 
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There really isn't any other.'

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Re: One More Time: Mac Antivirus Software? Fred Moore <fmoore@gfcn.huh> - 2017-02-25 15:13 -0500
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  Re: One More Time: Mac Antivirus Software? Don Bruder <Don@sonic.net> - 2017-02-25 18:04 -0800
    Re: One More Time: Mac Antivirus Software? Fred Moore <fmoore@gfcn.huh> - 2017-02-27 12:16 -0500
  Re: One More Time: Mac Antivirus Software? Ken Springer <wordworks@greeleynet.com> - 2017-02-26 06:48 -0700
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      Re: One More Time: Mac Antivirus Software? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2017-02-27 18:26 +0000
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      Re: One More Time: Mac Antivirus Software? Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2017-02-28 10:37 +0000
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          Re: One More Time: Mac Antivirus Software? Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2017-03-01 18:53 +0000
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              Re: One More Time: Mac Antivirus Software? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2017-03-03 19:41 +0000
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                Re: One More Time: Mac Antivirus Software? Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2017-03-05 01:07 +0000
                Re: One More Time: Mac Antivirus Software? Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2017-03-04 08:08 +0000

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