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Re: Anti Virus Software on a Mac?

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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 reviews were always way out of date by the time they hit the newsstands.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time I read the magazine it's well out of date.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.



> Some articles were decent though, but not worth the price unless I was
> travelling and had no internet access. Magazines have become something I
> buy in airports.

Many magazines these days come as eZines to read on your computer or
tablet, which helps lessen the time delay for the reviews, etc. Some
alos do daily or weekly updates, although you can also get those to
some degree for free via their website.

Of course, if you've got a fast internet connection and no data cap
worries, then you can just read various websites. I do visit websites
like MacRumors.com regularly, but don't have the time to fully read
everything in complete detail (especially stuff I'm no hugely
interested in), so the magazine comes in handy to fill in some of that.

In the old days of course, the magazines were a great way of getting
free software via the cover disks and CDs. I'm still using a
Photoshop-clone application (under the Classic environment) which I got
for free from a magazine cover floppy disk.  :-)

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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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