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Re: Anti Virus Software on a Mac?

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In article <l3o10l$im$1@dont-email.me>, Chris Ridd <chrisridd@mac.com>
wrote:

> On 2013-10-17 05:30:56 +0000, Your Name said:
> 
> > In article <51W5y0sPNk52-pn2-kFRHQzitbMjq@localhost>, 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?
> > 
> > I've always found MacWorld (US and Australian versions) to be rather
> > dismal and boring, with far too many adverts and low-quality paper and
> > style.
> 
> The UK version mostly just repeats articles from the US version, even 
> when they are quite US-centric. They tend to update the prices but that 
> is about it.

So does the Australian version.

Mind you that's better than the JB Hi-Fi stores' free magazine - the
New Zealand version copies parts of the Australian one, and the
introduction often talks about bits they've cut out or left for a later
issue or repeated bits from previous issues (although it does seem to
have been better recently).   :-\

I think part of MacWorld's problem is that it takes itself far too
seriously and is trying (and failing) to be a high-brow, intellectual
magazine. MacFormat on the other hand has a sense of humour and fun
about it (as did the Amiga Format magazine by the same publishing
company - I still have a box load of those in the cupboard).




> I'm still a subscriber, but I doubt for much longer.
> 
> 
> > The UK magazine MacFormat is probably the best Mac magazine.
> > http://macformat.com
> > 
> > It does include some iOS reviews and news to some degree, but they
> > spun-off a separate magazine called Tap! to be their fully iOS
> > magazine.
> 
> Tap! closed down recently. I never did see the reason why, but it 
> seemed very expensive.

Thanks, I hadn't heard that yet. I don't think I've ever seen it in
shops here and I've never read it, just the ocassional mention or the
free (extract?) early copy in MacFormat.

The price depends on exchange rates where you are and whether it's air
freighted or sea shipped. My copy of MacFormat at one point was costing
NZ$28 per month, but has now dropped down to only NZ$15.

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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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