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Re: Anti Virus Software on a Mac?

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In article <171020131841267075%YourName@YourISP.com>, Your Name
<YourName@YourISP.com> wrote:

> In article <1law4uk.1f926zjxlceluN%jamiekg@wizardling.geek.nz>, Jamie
> Kahn Genet <jamiekg@wizardling.geek.nz> wrote:
> 
> > John Varela <newlamps@verizon.net> 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?
> > 
> > Last I subscribed to was MacAddict, and that was some... eight years
> > ago? I can't really see the point nowadays. I've bought the odd copy of
> > Australian and UK MacWorld editions more recently, but the news and
> > reviews were always way out of date by the time they hit the newsstands.
> 
> I'm not a subscriber (partly because the postman will riun the
> magazines trying to stuff them in the letterbox!), but I do have a copy
> of the UK MacFormat magazine put aside at the locval magazine shop
> every month ... BUT they come to New Zealand from England via sea
> (unless you want to pay twice the price for airmail copies), so by the
> time I read the magazine it's well out of date. I've just collected the
> "August 2013" issue, which due to crazy dating systems means it was
> sold in shops in mid-July, and therefore printed in early July and so
> it was written in June, and I'm reading it in October.

Wow!! *BIG* breaking news!!

My latest issue of MacFormat has just informed me that Apple has "just"
announced at their WWDC a new, redesigned Mac Pro and iOS7 will be
coming "later this year".   ;-)

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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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