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Re: Anti Virus Software on a Mac?

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In article <YcydnfZJIYmwxv3PnZ2dnUVZ_rqdnZ2d@giganews.com>, Alan Browne
<alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> wrote:
> On 2013.10.16 20:19 , John Varela wrote:
> > [crossposted to comp.sys.mac.misc. OT for comp.sys.mac.system.
> > Follow-ups to csmm.]
> > On Wed, 16 Oct 2013 16:38:47 UTC, dcohenspam@talktalk.net (Daniel
> > Cohen) wrote:
> >> Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>> In all the MANY years of using and adminstering Apple computers (since
> >>> before there even was a Mac), I have only ever found ONE virus, and
> >>> that was a Windows virus infecting a Word document on a floppy disk
> >>> from a Windows user way back under Mac OS 8.
> >>
> >> Ph well, if you're going that far back, I will mention that once I had a
> >> virus on my Mac (around system 6 pr 7), and that came from a cover disk
> >> of a Mac magazine.
> >
> > Speaking of Mac magazines, does anyone else still read MacWorld?
> > They ought to rename it IOSWorld. I think I'll let my subscription
> > lapse. Can anyone recommend a Mac magazine that's still useful?
> 
> The WWW.
> 
> When I bought my first iMac I got a few months of MacWorld for free.  I 
> thought it nice and then subscribed for a year.  But the useful unknown 
> tips per issue ratio fell to a point where it wasn't worth opening them 
> anymore so I didn't renew.
> 
> Between 9to5Mac, Macrumours, Macworld's own site and many more I'm more 
> up to date (or can find something needed) much quicker than wading 
> through a magazine that is mainly dedicated to selling add space.
> 
> Not to mention of course the avoidance of paper waste and the fossil 
> fuel emissions and energy in printing the magazine and shipping it.

Paper waste?? What paper waste? 

I keep all my magazines - I've got a boxload of old Amiga Format
magazines and almost every issue of MacFormat monthly magazine from
about issue 2 through to the current issue (in New Zealand) number 263.
I've also got all the cover disks and CDs for them. Plus all the other
one-off magazines I've ever bought.

An electronic magazine / website probably creates more waste and
environmentally damage than a paper one due to manufacture of the
storage space, generating the electricity to keep it accessible, etc.

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Re: Anti Virus Software on a Mac? "John Varela" <newlamps@verizon.net> - 2013-10-17 00:19 +0000
  Re: Anti Virus Software on a Mac? jamiekg@wizardling.geek.nz (Jamie Kahn Genet) - 2013-10-17 15:20 +1300
    Re: Anti Virus Software on a Mac? Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2013-10-17 18:41 +1300
      Re: Anti Virus Software on a Mac? Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2013-10-26 13:04 +1300
  Re: Anti Virus Software on a Mac? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2013-10-16 23:12 -0400
  Mac magazines (was Re: Anti Virus Software on a Mac?) Bread <BreadWithSpam@Fractious.net> - 2013-10-16 20:26 -0700
    Re: Mac magazines (was Re: Anti Virus Software on a Mac?) Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2013-10-20 12:42 +0200
      Re: Mac magazines (was Re: Anti Virus Software on a Mac?) Bread <BreadWithSpam@Fractious.net> - 2013-10-25 12:43 -0700
        Re: Mac magazines jamiekg@wizardling.geek.nz (Jamie Kahn Genet) - 2013-10-26 11:57 +1300
  Re: Anti Virus Software on a Mac? Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2013-10-17 18:30 +1300
    Re: Anti Virus Software on a Mac? Chris Ridd <chrisridd@mac.com> - 2013-10-17 07:44 +0100
      Re: Anti Virus Software on a Mac? Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2013-10-18 09:24 +1300
      Re: Anti Virus Software on a Mac? jamiekg@wizardling.geek.nz (Jamie Kahn Genet) - 2013-10-18 15:42 +1300
        Re: Anti Virus Software on a Mac? Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2013-10-18 19:12 +1300
  Re: Anti Virus Software on a Mac? Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> - 2013-10-17 17:48 -0400
    Re: Anti Virus Software on a Mac? Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2013-10-18 19:05 +1300
      Re: Anti Virus Software on a Mac? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2013-10-18 03:09 -0400
      Re: Anti Virus Software on a Mac? Fred Moore <fmoore@gcfn.org> - 2013-10-18 11:47 -0400
        Re: Anti Virus Software on a Mac? Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2013-10-18 19:58 +0000
        Re: Anti Virus Software on a Mac? Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2013-10-19 10:04 +1300
  Re: Anti Virus Software on a Mac? Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> - 2013-10-17 17:50 -0400
    Re: Anti Virus Software on a Mac? JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2013-10-17 17:52 -0400
      Re: Anti Virus Software on a Mac? Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> - 2013-10-17 20:56 -0400
  Re: Anti Virus Software on a Mac? George Kerby <ghost_topper@hotmail.com> - 2013-10-18 12:49 -0500

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