Virus Software Profiled

The renewed popularity of the Mac platform has, sad to say, given new life to the moribund Mac virus threat. Although the problem isn't nearly as compelling as what Windows users face, it nonetheless poses a serious danger. And with Mac OS X's Unix underpinnings, Mac users are now open to the Unix viruses they once safely ignored.

In the old days, you had several antivirus programs from which to choose—freeware, shareware, and commercial. For various reasons, most have departed.

Even if your old antivirus software works just fine with the newest Apple system versions (Mac OS 8.5 and later, Mac OS X), it's still not a good ...

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