Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!news.glorb.com!news-out.readnews.com!news-xxxfer.readnews.com!news.misty.com!not-for-mail From: "Geoffrey S. Mendelson" Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.apps Subject: Re: Decent AV for Mac OS X Date: Sun, 8 Apr 2012 11:49:04 +0000 (UTC) Organization: MGT Consulting Lines: 28 Message-ID: References: <1ki4xkt.m6xp7c1dcvgfpN%jamiekg@wizardling.geek.nz> <1ki87v6.rdrwbpv3rdt6N%jamiekg@wizardling.geek.nz> <0r6859-fm1.ln1@news.sture.ch> Reply-To: gsm@mendelson.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 85.65.228.114.dynamic.barak-online.net X-Trace: max.inside.misty.com 1333885744 31310 85.65.228.114 (8 Apr 2012 11:49:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@misty.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 8 Apr 2012 11:49:04 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: slrn/pre1.0.0-11 (Linux) Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.mac.system:23475 comp.sys.mac.apps:9076 Paul Sture wrote: > Startup is a particular pain. Since I installed F-Secure on my XP system > (free from my ISP so why not?), it takes so long to get to the point > where the system is usable that I'll do something which involves walking > away from my desk like grabbing a cup of coffee. That's a configuration option. The default is to a scan of the registry, boot blocks, windows and program files directories and probably a few more at startup. You can just turn it off, and boot will go back to normal. As for F-Secure, I don't know much about it, but every time someone brings me a computer to look at, I run the standalone bootable AVG and it finds infected files the others have missed. On friends computers, I ask first and then uninstall their old antivirus and install the free AVG, on random computers brought to me by friend's of friends I don't. Geoff. -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson, N3OWJ/4X1GM My high blood pressure medicine reduces my midichlorian count. :-(